Last week, I saw my grandfather’s face beneath the black cap of a priest with a floor-brushing robe, dusting the frost from the streets of Krakow as he moved with a purpose…
Category: Travel
All things travel
Red, White and Blue Pie… A Month Late
I’ve been in Paziols. This was supposed to be a 4th of July post, but the 4th of July, like pretty much every day, kind of just flew by, until suddenly, it…
Adventures through Scotland: Day 1 (Stirling, Falkirk, Balloch)
Way back in August, I took a trip to Scotland with my friend, the Shoe Fiend. For whatever reason, I never got the chance to talk about it on here, but the…
Adventures through Scotland: Day 2 (Loch Lomond, Falls of Dochart, Balquhidder)
When the Shoe Fiend and I left our cute little Bed and Breakfast in Balloch, it was raining. We soldiered on, though, and got an early start, driving around the coast of…
sanglier, gaulois, dol de bretagne
I’m afraid that I may not have been entirely frank with you, friends. You see, as I reread past posts about my life here in France, you get all of the good…
Soulatgé, bread, pottery
There comes a time, every fall, when I start to realize quite how much I miss Paziols. Leaving Paziols isn’t like leaving New York. I never stay in New York long; I’m…
Dol-de-Bretagne
It’s been awhile since we discussed food, which I realize, as the writer of a food blog, is strange, so let’s remedy that straight away: the last stop on the Sous-Chef’s and…
Mont St-Michel and St-Malo
I don’t vacation very often; I generally don’t like it. I don’t love living out of a suitcase. I don’t like deciding what’s essential from my bathroom cupboards before leaving, only to…
No pictures.
I don’t have much to say about today. I think that most of what I would say, should I decide to say it, has already been said a hundred times over since…
La Rochelle
So… I disappeared for awhile. I wanted to finish talking about my trip with the Sous-Chef, but in the meantime, I was cooking up a storm and saving up pictures to use…