Madrid is the Mall of the World
by the Night Writer Minnesota may be home to the Mall of America, but Madrid at night has to be the Mall of the World, especially on the weekends. Dinner is served very late here by American standards,...
View ArticleAchmed, the Good-As-Dead Terrorist
by Tiger Lilly We went to the Mediterranean Sea today. The water was warm, surprisingly enough, and the waves were… happy. In fact, they inspired a poem: Ah, the blue of the sea I am floating in a...
View ArticleSegovia, the magical kingdom
by the Night Writer One day while we were still in Madrid we decided to take a day trip to nearby city of Segovia, once the seat of the Spanish kings and the site of an ancient but still functioning...
View ArticleAdventures In Dining, Part 2: Squid, Liver, and Seafood, Oh My!!!
by Tiger Lilly While we were in Spain, I had some … interesting, shall we say, experiences in food. We went out with a few of Mom and Dad’s friends from their branch of Pueblo Ingles. It’s usual for...
View ArticleBarcelona is gaudy, I mean, Gaudi
by the Night Writer The last few days of our trip were spent in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, or Catalunya as it is referred to in Spain. It seemed to me that Barcelona has a more cosmopolitan...
View ArticleMy hovercraft is full of eels
by the Night Writer …or, as they’d say in Catalan, the official language of Barcelona, “El meu aerolliscador està ple d’anguiles.” Knowing that Castillian Spanish wasn’t necessarily welcome in...
View ArticleAdventures in Eating, Part 3: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly…
by Tiger Lilly …well, this is the good, anyway. For the bad and the ugly, see my previous Adventures In Dining post. When in Rome Madrid (or Barcelona), eat what the Madridians (or Barcelonians) eat....
View ArticleSliding home
by the Night Writer Here are all the slide shows from our trip to Spain, consolidated in one post (including the new slideshows of Cazorla and Madrid). Some of the photos will be familiar from posts I...
View ArticleMrs. Worley, et al. Goes to Washington
By Reverend Mother Last night at approximately 10:30 Mall Diva, Tiger Lilly, Princess Flickerfeather and a good friend of the family, whom we will call Mrs. Lotti, left So. St. Paul headed for...
View ArticleBy the time I get to Phoenix
by the Night Writer So, last July I started the planning for my company’s semi-annual conference for our key clients. We were in the middle of the heat of summer, and our minds were full of sun and...
View ArticleUphill all the way – our experiences in Cesky Krumlov and Ceske Budejovice
by the Night Writer We’ve been on the move pretty much since Dec. 20. We ended our month-long residency in the 5th floor apartment in Prague and started to take little bites of Europe as we made our...
View ArticleGreetings from Graz (or, “leggo of my Eggenberg”)
by the Night Writer After grazing our way around the Budejovice square it was time for Graz, Austria (pronounced “Grahts”). We turned south and headed into the Alps on our way to the capital city of...
View ArticleTiger Lilly has an important question to ask you
by the Night Writer Well, entertained or not, I’m continuing to play catch-up with the travelogue. Today’s photos are of Pula, Croatia. We had heard that Croatia was beautiful and worth a drive. The...
View ArticleGetting below the surface at the Pietro Micca Museum
by the Night Writer When you’re in a place such as Turin the number of things to see can be overwhelming. I came across this rather quirky sounding attraction, though, and I’m really glad we decided to...
View ArticleOn the town in Turin
by the Night Writer We didn’t get to see Turin (Torino) at its best as the week we were there it was pretty overcast and drizzly. Still, you can see the “old bones”, so to speak, of the history and …...
View ArticleTrieste and Miramare
by the Night Writer Our Christmas plans took us to the Gulf of Trieste and the eastern shores of the Adriatic. The warm but foggy weather persisted, making it comfortable for walking around but...
View ArticleWorldviewing
by the Night Writer I saw a reference to “the Siege of Turin” the other day and it made me curious so I did a little research. The first challenge I faced was determining just which Siege of Turin I...
View ArticleAn American Barber in Prague
by the Night Writer After nearly 60 days without a haircut I was beginning to look a bit like a shrubbery. I didn’t know if I needed a barber or a topiarist, but I didn’t know how to find either …...
View ArticleAt the Museum of Communism
by the Night Writer I saw this museum advertised the first day we were in Prague and made a note to see it while we were here. I loved the poster, for one thing. It came down to our last weekend …...
View ArticleReflections of a latter-day Hussite
by the Night Writer One of our first circuits of Prague back in November came from a Hop On/Hop Off tour that took us past several impressive churches and cathedrals. The recorded narration, however,...
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