Food on Fridays: Around the world in 2 cities
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Today in Food on Fridays, we take a look at the variety of international foods that Chris and I had the chance to sample on our recent trips to London and Berlin.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Going out for lunch
Chris and I arrived at the Pergamon Museum sometime before 11am (it doesn’t open until 10am). After spending a couple of hours looking at a lot of stuff, we were ready for a lunch break before tackling anything more. Lunch, … Continue reading
Perusing the Pergamon
As I mentioned yesterday, last week Chris and I went to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. According to the Internet, it’s one of the most visited museums in all of Germany, a fact which I found surprising, since it houses … Continue reading
Two of a Kind?
The label for the fragment of the relief of a figure, mounted on the wall of the Pergamon, seemed to be indicating — in German — that the guy pictured was an Assyrian genius. A genius with a beard.
Monday Mysteries: The Dogs and Jackals of Mesopotamia
Today on Monday Mysteries we travel to Mesopotamia by way of Berlin to track down the secret of a Mesopotamian game board.
Not so mysterious Monday
Today is Monday, but the only mystery is why I decided to post a photo of Berlin, taken on a snowy day last year:
Food on Fridays: Finding something to “write home” about
Today on Food on Fridays, I take a look at the diverse food experiences we had on our recent trip to the U.K.
Ambling around Omagh
It took me a while last Friday, on a dark and dreary morning when everything seemed clothed in a grey veil, but I finally located the tourist information center in downtown Omagh, a town about 70-80 kilometers west of Belfast. … Continue reading
How I learned all I ever needed to know
There is really a book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. With apologies to the author of that book — a book I have never read, I might add — I beg to disagree with … Continue reading
An impossible mirror
Just a quick postscript to yesterday’s post about the first day I took photos with the new cell phone camera. As I mentioned, I did take photos in rooms other than the bedroom, but my favorite photo, yesterday’s LLM’s Unmade … Continue reading