Travel
Oceania Riviera – Part 1
13 November 2018 Oceania Cruises – M/V Riviera Embarkation Day – Here are a few photos of the ship as we started exploring this ship. Our home-away-from-home for two weeks. More details to come soon.
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Barcelona – Sagrada Familia
la Sagrada Familia November 2018 Barcelona Or more fully – The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família   What a perfect way to end our first walking tour. We managed to dodge the roaming showers around that day, coming out of the blue line subway stop to be stopped at the first sight […]
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Barcelona Modernist Walking Tour
November 2018 Barcelona Ahead of our trip we booked two walking tours through Rainbow Barcelona Tours (http://rainbowbarcelona.com/), a LGBT owned and operated company in Barcelona. Our personal guide, Manu, met us at our hotel, The Hotel Casa Fuster, located on Passeig de Gràcia, at the outer edge of the Eixample district. Manu gave a great orientation […]
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Barcelona Photos Preview – Part 2
November 2018 Barcelona Here’s our second installment of photos from our short stay in Barcelona. We also took a day-trip up to Montserrat which was really quite amazing! More to come soon. Enjoy! – and post your comments. Tapas Walking Tour Montserrat
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Barcelona Photos Preview
November 2018 Barcelona Modernist Architecture Walking Tour Check out our newest post at Barcelona Modernist Walking Tour Sagrada Familia Find our write-up at Barcelona – Sagrada Familia First Tapas Dinner More info coming soon.
Ireland 2017
British Airways Cityflyer
My trip to Ireland, as mentioned in my posts about Virgin Atlantic, started out in London visiting friends Darren and Ian. The next leg was getting to Dublin to meet up with Kevin. I booked British Airways CityFlyer from London City airport to Dublin. Even though it was a short flight (less than 1 1/2 […]
Food
Prime Rib Revisited
Christmas Day, 2017 You all may remember our couple of posts from last year here and the one where we sous-vide our prime rib which I thought turned out great, Kevin was a little less pleased than I. So this year we got back to basics by slow roasting. Both, the sous vide and the roasting […]
Ireland 2017
Virgin Atlantic Experience – The Return
July 26, 2017 In my prior post about the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Experience, I talked about the trip to London from Seattle. I also want to give a little more details about our return, from London Heathrow to Seattle. We booked into Upper Class for our return home at the end of a whirlwind […]
Ireland 2017
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Experience
July 11, 2017 Another new airplane adventure! Virgin Atlantic, just this year, took over Delta’s route between Seattle and London. After years of flying exclusively British Airways on this route, I thought now was a great time to try something new for a change. Besides, I could snag an Upper Class (they’re version of Business […]
Food
Ina’s Million Dollar Chicken
September 19, 2017 It’s chicken dinner night! Last weekend we caught an episode of The Barefoot Contessa on Food Network. I know it’s a stretch of the imagination, but she featured yet another take on roast chicken. This time featuring Chef Dan Silverman’s Million Dollar Chicken from The Standard Gill in New York City. After […]
Food
Grilling: Gas vs Wood
by Steven 24 May 2017 People occasionally ask us why we have both a gas (propane) grill and a charcoal/wood grill. The simple answer is that we can – we have enough room on our deck for both. The more complicated answer is that we simply enjoy the flexibility and options. Which to use and […]
Food
Two Fish Sous Vide
April 25, 2017 Another sous vide adventure this evening. I got home just before Kevin, which is unusual as we typically leave work at about the same time, but his work is 1/2 the distance from home than mine. I took the opportunity to lay down in bed for a quick bit. Before I had […]