This is a continuation of my deep-ish dive into the weirdly complex world of washing machines in the EU. Like a lot of literally foreign concepts, not growing up with…

After (checks calendar) three years of being in Portugal, I am still learning things about how our washing machine works. Which feels weird because I’ve been doing household laundry since…

If you don’t follow us on regular-old facebook, you probably aren’t aware that we fostered cats for about a month this summer. It’s not a thing that we do regularly,…

This post is part of a series called London 2024 A little while back we talked about our aborted attempt to see Ian McKellen in “Player Kings”. When those plans…

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal One of the people in our area (henceforth known as RV) in the Americans and Friends in Portugal facebook…

I know a number of you have been following this issue and we can now conclude the saga with the news that our cards arrived last week! It was very…

I grew up in San Francisco, and family have lived there since the early 70s. I’ve watched it’s food scene for a lot of decades, from the early days of…

This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 As we said last week, rather than spend a day of our mere one-week trip in transit between Vienna…

Did you know that between the beginning of November and the beginning of January there are at least twenty separate holiday events happening around the world? Clearly we humans like…

We recently were asked about our travel kit; the person was looking for holiday gift ideas. If you’ve been reading us for a bit, you know we have opinions; strong…