A Celebration of Mundanity

And the answer is? WE DROVE HOME FROM D.C. FOR THE FOURTH TIME!!! Our flight out of London was running late due to strong head winds, making the flight about eight and half hours.  We had a really…

Great, just great.  The northeastern US is set to have some spectacularly bad winter weather this coming weekend.  Just in time for us to fly home for the holidays.  Given that the last THREE…

I've uploaded heaps of photos of Bean taken over the past year by Mark's mom. I uploaded them so I could make a new Bean calendar for 2008 (using QOOP) and I wanted to use new Bean adventure photos…

This afternoon, I joined a few coworkers and went to a talk given at the Linnean Society of London. The speaker? E. O. Wilson and the topic was Carl von Linne. Earlier this year Mark and I were in…

I am just amazed that I have not yet had a significant cold. At all. Since we've moved to England. Especially now that I have been regularly exposing myself to hundreds of people confined to small…

There was so much to see in Saarbrucken that I decided on a second day in the city. First stop, the Franco-German Gardens. This is a botanical garden near the border between the two countries. It was…

In the morning I hopped on the bus that took the most circuitous route to the train station around the Sankt Ingbert area. I saw signs for hiking trails and a "Nordic Walking Park" whatever that is.…

Today I hopped on the train and headed to the capital of the state of Saar, Saarbrucken. I started by heading to Rathaus St. Johann, the old town hall. Outside above the entrance is the oddly out of…

Sankt Ingert (a.k.a. St. Ingbert) is a small town. I'm fond of these small European villages. Cobbled stones lining the road on pedestrian only market districts. Cafes, bakeries, restaurants,…

For just being a short flight, we still had a long travel day. Landing at Hahn airport was a breeze, no wait at passport control, no problem getting on the road with the rental car. The drive to…