Yes, I know: rolling hills is weird, but trips through The Concise Oxford Thesaurus and, um, Urbandictionary.com failed to yield a synonym suitable for pairing with Florentine; the obvious alliteration would be Florentine Funbags, but funbags feels even more vulgar low class… It’s not what I’m going for. Jubblies of the Renaissance doesn’t quite sound …
Where Rome proved to be a constant series of “wow, that actually looks like I expected it to look,” and “holy shit, I ‘remember’ that,” -style reactions, our Florence-focused leg of our continued tour of Assassin’s Creed sites (I’m only half kidding here; by my count, we’ve been to the places covered in Brotherhood, Unity …
One might be inclined to believe that Monnaie de Paris, located in the building that still houses half of the French mint (the actual production facility was moved outside of Paris a few decades ago, thus leaving the design studio) would be home to a museum about manufacturing coins, complete with a description of the …
We’re in the midst of a recuperation weekend; the Purrito’s brief voyage back to Texas was draining to the point that we abandoned the normal keep-her-awake-by-running-around plans in favor of chilling chez nous. All of which is supposed to provide a coherent establishing story to why I found myself standing on our balcony staring at …
Easter is the best holiday because it is the holiday for which the best candy is produced. Additionally, the it’s-good-if-there-is-a-chicken-on-it theory remains true.
Our return to London served as the latter-end bookmark to a hectic week of travel; Malta last weekend, Nîmes (on business, hence the lack of a post) mid-week, and finally London over this past weekend’. While our first trip was somewhat of an unpleasant experience, I think our view of the city has been rehabilitated …
Last week’s trip to Malta was a massive change to our normal travel routine; while we are usually running around in search of the next thing to see, Malta was intended to be a sit-and-relax vacation. In becoming a relaxing vacation, it also morphed into one centered around food; both of us had managed to …
If there’s a chicken on the label, it’s probably pretty good.
Last weekend’s (in my defense, it’s been a rough week) wanderings around le marais were particularly productive from the standpoint of checking things off of The List: we saw église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, hit an exhibit about a forgotten wildlife painter at musée Cognacq-Jay, saw a surprisingly interesting exhibit at the galerie des bibliothèques de la Ville …
Having learned our lesson last year (Saturdays should be considered no-go days), we attended the 2016 version of the Salon de l’agriculture on Sunday, and had a much better time for it. While the crowds were still significant, we were able to wander through areas which we’d had to bypass last year due to the …
Fezzik In Paris 