Bars
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Good-bye Dear Todi
Wow how long can I drag out the end lol well in my defense, it is a bit emotional, the end of this entire month here. Will we choose to ever do such a thing again? Spoiler alert: probably 😀 We had one final dinner left in Todi, which we chose to spend in the… Continue reading
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The Swearing Post
(March 2025) So yeah, this post might be a little PG-13 It’s been a long week and so we finally returned to the restaurant Sam desecrated a week ago and refused to ever return to (What happened?!?Sigh… remember the place Pane e Vino where the foul fowl covered in yuck was served? Sam’s barf trigger… Continue reading
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Take-Out Pizza!
(notes from March 2025) When we planned this trip, Sam was working for about twenty hours a week–easy! But by the time we got here, it was more like fifty, and her schedule typically dragged far into the night. Tonight we needed dinner, but she couldn’t get away to a restaurant and we were out… Continue reading
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Malta At Last!!
Sorry my last post was so lengthy, I don’t expect anyone to read it all—hurray, no quiz!!—but I had fun writing it lol and anyway I wanted to remember everything in all its gruesome detail 😀 Please take special note of Sam’s white blouse… you may be seeing it for a while 😀 Continue reading
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Dinner then off to Spetses!!
After dinner we ordered the delicious-sounding raspberry tarte for dessert!! The day did not begin very auspiciously… we were up all night worried about missing our early wake-up alarms and then having to pack, having to find a taxi and try to explain where we thought we wanted to go, etc., etc. And naturally it… Continue reading
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Cold Raw Dead Oysters
Can you guess that oysters aren’t necessarily my favorite thing? I always love two oysters… the third is “fine”… then please don’t show me any more 😀 We had only two nights in Hiroshima, and we were sad to leave. It’s a really nice place to visit and we wouldn’t mind staying longer—but on the… Continue reading
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First Night in Hiroshima
Notes from Tuesday May 16 2023: We began the day in the chairless monastery, and we calculated we travelled on nine different public conveyances to reach Hiroshima. They were all pretty fun but there was a bit of stress on one leg of the journey: our train was sold out in the reservation cars, however… Continue reading