We’re enjoying our first visitor (Hi C!) this week and it’s been a lot of firsts for us. You see, we’ve been terrible residents in Braga because we have done…

For many of us seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the late night run in the local movie theater was a kind of rite of passage. This gorgeously schlocky…

This post is part of a series called London 2024 We’re wrapping up tales of our trip to London. It turns out that we ate at interesting places more than…

This post is part of a series called London 2024 This post covers three places we really enjoyed, two a bit upscale and one that would easily be a “joint.”

This post is part of a series called London 2024 When we arrived in London our hosts (clients? friends? the people who own the house we’re staying in, roll with…

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…

Our friends A&B have been raving about a meat-intensive utterly delicious restaurant in the hills just above Guimares. A bunch of us arranged cars and set out on a bit…

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…

(9/16) Volterra, city of alabaster, was a “must do,” more for me than J. It was also the furthest away from Foresteria Il Giardino, about 2 hours in ideal condition,…

(9/10) Rain in Italy was very different from how it is at home. In Seattle the rain mostly comes as a steady drizzle or shower. The ‘hard’ rain is just…