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A few recipes
Two great things. Florence, Italy. The Florence post will go up tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some recipes for you to try. It just so happens that I am serving this for dinner tonight: Pulled Pork Barbecue (cooking it in a crock pot) Spicy Slaw No Egg Tirimasu Edited to add: Aledys tells me that she [...]
Italy: Lucca (ti amo)
Lucca was a charming surprise! Located in Tuscany, this little town is surrounded by thick walls from the Renaissance era. Rick Steves listed Lucca and Pisa together in his Italy book, which I have to admit was the only reason we went. I am so glad we did, though. Lucca is a town with heart. [...]
Italy: Pisa
Because we were “in the neighbourhood”, I really wanted to have a peek at Pisa. We did Rick Steve’s walk from the train station through the town to the Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles), where the Leaning Tower is located. We spent half a day in Pisa and half a day in Lucca. I’ll show [...]
Italy: Cinque Terre
This is a continuation of our trip to France and Italy in April. If you missed my previous posts, you can click here for: Nice, Antibes, Cannes, and Monaco. Next week, I’ll finish up this series with two more posts: Pisa/Lucca and Florence. Cinque Terre is a collection of five villages situated along the Italian [...]
What happens when we run out of Stroopwafels
(my least favourite) I won’t tell you how many boxes of Daelman‘s double packs we brought over with us, but now they’re GONE. So as of yesterday, we’re going cold turkey and switching over to 100% British biscuits. A real hardship, you know ;-) Interestingly, we can buy Daelman’s stroopwafels at our local post office [...]
Wordless Wednesday ~ 54: By Appointment to the Queen
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Out and about in London
Roxi has had quite a number of get togethers with friends in town lately. The latest one was on Sunday, a meeting in Soho with a friend from her old school here in England. While they went their way for a couple of hours, I made my way into Chinatown, a place I’ve not spent [...]
Ask an Expat: Our version of the first day of school
School books and supplies for five classes. In recent weeks, I’ve had a number of people ask me about Roxi school, so I thought that was probably a sign that I should do an update… Roxi’s books arrived on Friday. The larger packet on the right contained her science kit–we haven’t had a minute to [...]
Ain’t no love in the heart of the city
We are a little out of order on the songs for Roxi and Chris’ contemporary music school. This is Week 4′s song–Week 3 is still in production. Click here for Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City Roxi – lead + backing vocals and keyboard Chris – guitars and bass Mr. DJ – drums [...]
