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Full Food set, from Florida to Barcelona: We’ve captioned much of the food with descriptions. At least what we can remember The highlights: May’s favorite meals: Lunch Tapas in Barcelona Johnny Rockets Diner Portofino May’s favorite entrees: Roasted gnocchi with proscuitto, capers.(Cruise main dinning room) Petit Filet with pepper sauce (Chops Grille) Skewer of Seafood [...]

Best of Lisbon set: Complete Lisbon set: I’ll just start by saying outright: Lisbon is HILLY. That’s it. It’s a lovely port stop and we had fun, but if you are going to go sightseeing alone, you need two things to keep you going: a compass and comfortable shoes for climbing hills. We had the [...]

The transatlantic cruise always means a lot of time At Sea. This was something I was looking forward to, and G needed to relax between school terms. Full At Sea set: This trip, however, we had more time At Sea than expected. We were originally scheduled for 6 days, then we’ll arrive from Bermuda to [...]

Best of Bermuda set: Complete Bermuda set: Before heading onto the cruise, I had checked the weather and saw that it was forecasting rain for our port stop. So while I wasn’t surprised when we got there that it was gloomy, but I was disappointed. So, I settled myself for a drizzly trip, but wasn’t [...]

Best of Florida Photoset: (click on photo) Florida photoset (Complete): (click on photo) When I told a friend recently that I’ve never been to Florida before this trip, he was shocked, but it’s true. We found it hot, but at least there was this lovely breeze from the ocean that really helped. Fort Lauderdale had [...]

The big holiday this year was a cruise! It was supposed to leave from Fort Lauderdale Florida, head to Bermuda, Lisbon, Cadiz, Malaga and Barcelona. A Spanish sampler of sorts. However, ship troubles at the port of Lisbon changed the plans, and we missed out on Cadiz and Malaga. Our trip became: Florida, Bermuda, Lisbon [...]

Recently posted: The Washington Post City Guide to the festival.Cherry Blossom Confidential: What You Need to Know If I’m there for a longer trip, I’d likely go back to some of my favorite places to eat. However, even for a short weekend, I’ll always end up sometime at Kramer’s Books and Afterwards. It’s ridiculously busy [...]

Yes, I spent all last night working out how to do a provincial cast on for the new shawl I planned to cast on. I wound up all the Silk Thread II into a cake without any issues. The colours look even better than in the skein. I timed it, it took 10 minutes. Here [...]

Okay, So, it’s been days since I got back on my holiday weekend. It was loads of fun. But I’m quite jet-lagged still. I did however, get the photos done and click on the photo below to see more of the photoset on flickr. And I did start the Anniversary Socks By Nancy Bush on [...]

My fun trip this weekend is starting to loom. I need to start to think about what project to bring to work on in the airport, on the plane… Here’s a few contenders to consider: On-Your-Toes Socks. Verdict Probably not. It’s this close to being done and I’ll be left without a project since I [...]

I’ve been quite behind in my blogs reading lately….Found this little gem which was from a while ago. [via] Chinese Culture Versus German Culture I’d say that while the project is to reflect between German and Chinese cultures, it’s pretty accurate to what I’ve seen here in North America (the German culture as reflective of [...]

Edited November 16, 2007: The official photo set is up! Even bigger and better than last year! The Westie Walk on Sunday Sept 16th had One Hundred and One Westie attendees and maybe twice as many owners/supporters. Easily double the attendees as last year! It would appear that maybe $6000 was raised this year. I’ll [...]

On a mini trip to Newmarket for the Garlic Festival, we found a yarn store on main street. Unwind Yarn House is a lovely comfortable small store with really friendly staff. They’ve got a great selection of yarns including: Cascade, Blue Sky Alpaca, Dream in Color, Shelfridge Farms, Opal, Trekking, Sublime. For the full list, [...]

No trip of ours is complete without the food shots, and of course, we managed to forget to bring the camera for a few meals… Sarnia: Troy: Grand Rapids: On the road back: And my favorite of them all: I don’t understand why Canada only gets half the products. And in closing, the photoset.

The final destination was Grand Rapids, but of course, we had to spend a little time detouring on the way. A stop or 6 in Troy, Outlet shopping, yarn shopping, and finally get to Grand Rapids. Road work on the way extended the drive longer than expected. I managed to do some knitting in the [...]

*In a class. This mini road-trip was spurred on by an email from Annie Modesitt‘s mailing list saying that she was going to be giving classes in Sarnia . I’ve always wanted to take Combination Knitting from her and this was a must do on my list. Sarnia is not too far and who knows [...]

and back. Been off and away for a few days. This is a very unflattering picture, but that’s how it is when you take a photo of yourself. It’s at least representative of the car portion of the trip. (minus the falling asleep…) More photos and trip details later.

Our favorite Fish and Chips place: Olde Yorke Fish and Chips. The first time we went to this place was after hearing about a family going to make special trip to go during the CreativFestival last Autumn. This place must be good, I thought, so that weekend, we went, but they are not open on [...]

My New York age is 35 This New York age puts you into a middle category between young and old (but not “middle age” per se). Be proud. You’ve got a nice balance between going out hard-core and staying in. You care about culture but also like some quiet nights. Keep it up, but think [...]

First time we had Dante‘s pizza was on New Year’s Eve with delivery. It was okay but not spectacular. But we gave it another go and this time, we went to the store and it was yum. The menu had some great ingredient choices that we never seen at other places: artichoke, shrimp (huge), 4 [...]