A Celebration of Mundanity

Left to my own devices, I hopped on the metro (just €1 to go anywhere you want to go with no extra fee for transfers and it even came complete with an accordionist playing a tango (Hernando's…

P.S. We're in Madrid right now, will be until Thursday, the same story, Mark's here for work and I'll be off to explore (Le Prado and the Botanical Gardens are on the list). This is one busy city.…

I just finished reading Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell. I'm sitting here thinking, "now THAT is exactly the sort of project I need!" Julie spends a year cooking all 524…

With Azalea's aflame, carpets of Columbine and surrounded in swaths of fragrant Wisteria I walked through the Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens and hiked on through to the neighboring woodlands. I…

Stockport, just outside of Manchester, boasts England's first and ONLY museum entirely dedicated to the exciting world of hatting (i.e. the history of hats and hat making). How could I resist this?…

From all accounts from what we've heard and in books we've read, if you're the spouse of an expat who has their work provided work visa, don't expect to work and get lots of hobbies. My plan…

I've mentioned that I had been reading Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island. And that I keep putting it down because each chapter goes something like, "when I first visited this place in England…

I sit here, in a rather lovely hotel room, in Didsbury, just outside of Manchester, about to head out to the Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden. (I should really add a "botanical garden" category with as…

We drove around the Cotswolds today. Admiring the surreal beauty of honey colored limestone cottages and villages, surrounded by unending fields of sheep and the hillsides that were blanketed with…