London and Princeton, Monday, June 9, 2025 We regretted the big meal Sunday night because it limited our capacity to enjoy the remarkable breakfast buffet at The Londoner. Not that we suffered. Easy jaunt on the tube from Leicester Square to the Elizabeth Line at Tottenham Court Road, and on to Heathrow, where we breezedContinue reading “Winging it back to the US of A, or: Police State, ho!”
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The Rain in Spain…
Madrid and Cordoba, Tuesday, March 11, 2025 The wait at passport control in Madrid was just silly: something like an hour and a quarter standing in line foll0wed by the most cursory passport check imaginable. Things went pretty well after that: a shuttle bus brought us from Terminal 1 to Terminal 4, where trains leaveContinue reading “The Rain in Spain…”
Around and about on the bus
I started the day with a couple of pics of the local denizens in front of the hotel. We wanted to give Paul and Sue an overview of the city’s neighborhoods, so we hopped on a tourist bus. Well, OK, hopped on is a lie. The entire area around the Zocalo was altered by aContinue reading “Around and about on the bus”
New neighborhoods, new colors
We started the day by getting our Covid tests; it couldn’t have been easier, all rumors to the contrary. What the newspaper reports of long lines with multi-hour waits failed mention was that this was for free testing; paying a small amount at a labratory reduces the wait to…zero. Our plan for the day wasContinue reading “New neighborhoods, new colors”
Faithfully yours
Sunday, October 3, 2021 Our lodging, the Kelly Inn, was the kind of place that had an automatic pancake machine. Who am I to resist comparing pancakes from a machine to mine? We got a fairly slow start and paid the price: a 30 minute wait at the west entrance. Yesterday had been an illusion:Continue reading “Faithfully yours”
Iceland…not our last trip
Wednesday, August 3 Iceland is a deeply moving place, a place that made us reexamine our relationship with nature. As Sue aptly said, the distance could not be greater to a place like Chianti, where, as Fernand Braudel long ago noted, humans and nature have found a harmonious balance. Humans carve out a somewhat tenuousContinue reading “Iceland…not our last trip”