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Travel

Photos from Greece

July 2, 2010
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At the risk of being that annoying relative who makes you sit through a stack of vacation photos, I’m going to make this quick.  We have, it seems, been doing an abnormal amount of traveling these days.  Things have gotten out of control, actually, and I think it’s partially a proximity issue (though generous European [...]

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Photos from Italy

May 4, 2010
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I decided, in the end, that I should probably revisit that li’l visit to Italy.  You know, the one from, what?  A month ago?  And by revisit, I mean stop stalling, conclude, get it over with already.  Rather than tell you what we did day by day, restaurant by restaurant, I’m going to let the [...]

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Cinque Terre & Portovenere, Barely

April 12, 2010
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We recently took a trip to and through Italy.  Totally unplanned.  We just simply got in the car one day and proceeded to sort of drive by the seat of our pants.  It turned out to be a fantastic idea.  We toured Alpine skylines and Mediterranean coastlines, lake regions and wine regions; venturing as far [...]

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Photos from Idaho

January 13, 2010

I thought I would follow up last week’s sickly post with some photos from my sojourn in Idaho.  Here’s what I had time for once I got off the couch:  a 2-hour drive, a trip to the grocery store, and the wedding of my beeeautiful cousin.  This all makes for, as you can see below, [...]

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Home Sick

January 6, 2010
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I’ve spent the last two weeks in Idaho.  On the couch.  It’s my new Happy Place, actually.  A social place.  Where shingles had the opportunity to meet sinus infection and laziness got reacquainted with reality TV.  Everyone, meet Nyquil.  There is a real, stuffed mountain lion (shot by my dad) staring me down from the [...]

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Holidays in Vienna: My Favorite Things

November 30, 2009
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I’ve said it before, but Vienna recalls The Sound of Music for me.  There are, truly, cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with…potato salad.  (I don’t think schnitzel with noodles even exists.  It would be the equivalent of serving Thanksgiving turkey with lasagna:  kind of wacky.)  And during Christmas, [...]

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Tokaj Essence

November 21, 2009
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I tasted my first Tokaji aszú wine somewhere over the Atlantic, appropriately, on my first flight to Budapest.  I remember only that the honey-colored nectar was as sweet as it looked and that I was grateful for the side of blue cheese.  Not one for dessert wines, I haven’t really touched it since, though it is [...]

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My, Oh My Opatija

November 9, 2009
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We just spent the weekend in Opatija, Croatia (with a side of Trieste) for the fourth time since moving to Budapest.  The first time was for the sake of convenience, it being simply one of the first places you to reach en route to the sea.  The subsequent trips were made out of sheer, head-over-heels [...]

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The Pope and Rome

October 13, 2009
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We just got back from a long weekend in Rome.  I hadn’t spent more than a day there previously, so the goal was to cover the basics:  the Vatican, Pantheon, Coliseum, and Roman Forum; the best of the Piazzas and Fontanas (del Popolo, di Spagna, Trevi); the view from Pincian Hill; the shops on Via [...]

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Asiago and Mushroom Pasta

October 5, 2009
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We recently went in search of porcinis and chanterelles in Asiago, a beautiful village in the “Pre-alp” mountains of Northern Italy.  The idyllic green pastures and soft, sloping mountains were nothing short of breathtaking.  After trekking around in them for a couple of days, I felt fiercely alive… and fiercely hungry.  Though we only collected a [...]

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