London and drama
Today I’m sharing images of our last three days in London. But before you see that, you must hear all about my “passport saga” – because a trip isn’t a real trip until you have a dramatic story to...
View Articleluck of the Irish
This is my first view of Ireland, from a British Airlines flight, about to land in Dublin. Shades of green, as far as the I can see, just as I imagined it would be. Once we collected our baggage and...
View ArticleBallynahinch Castle
We really didn’t want to leave the luxury of the Princess Grace suite at The Shelbourne, but that’s what we had to do on Wednesday morning. We loaded up the rental car and began our drive across the...
View ArticleVictorian walled gardens and an Abby too
We visited Kylemore Abby in Connemara, County Galway. While the former castle turned Abby was wonderful and impressive, it was the walled Victorian gardens that really caught my fancy. Kylemore Castle...
View Articleupgraded … downgraded…
In a mere 48 hours we went from feeling like royalty, living in the lap of luxury …. to common Irish peasants, ready to harvest potatoes. This is where we thought we were staying. Isn’t it stunning?...
View ArticleDingle Peninsula
I don’t think I’ve mentioned just how gloriously beautiful Ireland is. Seriously, it is beyond words. Neither photos nor waxing poetic can do it an ounce of justice. I do know that the words that will...
View ArticleBallymaloe Cookery School and Ballymaloe House
Ballymaloe Cookery School, Organic Farm & Gardens in East Cork is a magical place to go for an afternoon cookery class, a weekend cooking course, or the three-month professional course....
View ArticleIrish Beauty
I have one more recipe to share with you from the class I took at Ballymaloe Cookery School, but it will have to wait for the weekend. Today, I’d like to post a few of my favorite miscellaneous photos...
View ArticleCarlsbad, CA
We own a week at a timeshare in California. In Carlsbad, which is north of San Diego, to be specific. We haven’t used our week there the last several years, having rented it out instead. The main...
View Articlewedding dress shopping in SF
Marissa and I, along with her maid-of-honor, Kaley, and two of her five bridesmaids, Petra and Jessica, went wedding dress shopping on Saturday. We visited two bridal shops and although the girls and...
View ArticleSF 10.0
Marissa moved to San Francisco on June 19, 2011. I figure I’ve visited her and written about my trips at least nine times in these last 3+ years. Hence the SF 10.0 title. The trip this past weekend...
View Articleroad trip
My posts for the next week to 10 days will be sporadic. For good reason! Twenty-five+ hours and 1757 miles of driving will be the reason. Dave and I fly to San Francisco today to help Marissa and Jeff...
View Article#SFtoATX
We Made It! I’ll start with that for Day Four of our road trip, we made it! The title above is the hashtag that Marissa and I have used for our Facebook and Instagram photos of the trip. Most of the...
View Articlepopover to Austin
I’ve been in Austin, Texas all weekend, visiting Marissa. Actually, not just Austin, but Waco and Round Top too. So this week, along with the recipes from more than a week ago from our Easter supper,...
View Article1800 Europe bound
This, my 1800th post, is being written at Sky Harbor International Airport at 7:00 PM on July 15, 2016. Dave and I are waiting for our British Airlines flight to London, continuing on to Munich to...
View ArticleMunich (München)
Hi there! I had planned to be posting all along our #europeanvacation. Now, more than ten days in – it turns out that I should have taken advantage of the opportunity while I had it. That opportunity...
View ArticleGermany and Austria
As I mentioned in the last post, before we joined up with the land-tour portion of our river cruise, we were on our own. First in Munich with Hope & Nick and then in a rented car as we traveled...
View ArticleGarmisch-Partenkirchen
Our last night before joining the land-tour group was spent in Germany, in the resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. On the way there, from Munich, we stopped at Ettal Abbey, a beautiful Benedictine...
View ArticleTravel Tuesday
Some of you asked if I plan to post more about our trip to Germany and down the Rhine River. I’m sorry to have started with a few posts, then abruptly stopped. The problem with being away for a couple...
View ArticleTravel Tuesday
From Zürich, we traveled to the gorgeous city of Lucerne. Our first quick stop was at the historic and beautiful Lion Monument, which commemorates the more than 700 Swiss Guards who were massacred in...
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