Food on Fridays: Oldie but Goodie
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Today on Food on Fridays we’re in London, eating “ancient food” at the British Museum.
Category Archives: Trips
The scene they would have seen
Today I want to do a quick follow-up on yesterday’s post. Remember when I said that those paparazzi were probably taking a photo of a scene behind me, and not focussing on me for their shots?
September in Paris
We’re back from 2.5 weeks of traveling: first to Paris, then to London, and then to Cologne. I took many photos — but of course I haven’t sorted through them all yet. So today I’ll offer just a couple of … Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The Water Carrier
Today on Monday Mysteries we’re back in Iceland for a look at the story behind a statue I saw everyday on our visit, called Vatnsberinn, “The Water Carrier”.
Food on Fridays: Icelandic Foods
Today I want to talk about a few Icelandic foods we encountered on our recent trip to Reykjavik.
Back in Baltimore
I graduated from the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus which was in the northern part of town, several miles from downtown Baltimore, back in 1984,
A bokeh in the piazza
I took these photos of a street lamp in the Piazza Bra in Verona back in June. At the time, I’d just gotten a new camera, so I was experimenting a bit with some different kinds of ways of representing … Continue reading
Food on Fridays: Sarah!
Today on Food on Fridays we encounter one of the popular pastries in Reykjavik.
Hallgrímskirkja: The church at the top of that hill
As we wandered around Reykjavik on the first day of our visit in May, Chris and I glanced down one of the street and caught sight of an ultra modern church that was looming over all the normal-sized buildings that … Continue reading
Impressions of the Harpa
The conference that Chris went to in Reykjavik in May was held in the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center building. It’s rather new, as