The final leg of our 2023 England trip, following London, Oxford and Cornwall. Sunday, May 21 We had one last breakfast at the Padstow Harbour Hotel. I tried eggs florentine, served like a benedict on an English muffin. It was again more than I needed but quite tasty. We bid farewell to Padstow and drove …
The third leg of our 2023 England trip, following London and Oxford. Wednesday, May 17 The Greenbank Hotel breakfast was a la carte, not buffet, so Barb got a full English Breakfast but couldn’t get crispy bacon. She was slightly sad. I had mackerel baked with eggs and cheese, basically a little quiche that was …
The second leg of our 2023 England trip, following London. Sunday, May 14 I bought train tickets from London’s Paddington Station to Oxford several months in advance of our trip. A few weeks before our travels, I got a notice of rail strikes in England near our travel dates and a notice that the direct …
This was the vacation we originally planned for May, 2020. We wanted to visit our friend Ada in London one last time before she transferred back to DC. We bought our British Airways tickets and I was researching itineraries in Cornwall when the Covid pandemic squashed all plans. British Airways gave us vouchers for the …
I made a short solo trip to the Eastern Shore of Maryland to see a concert by Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar in Easton. I stayed the night and found some nice places to eat. Friday, March 24 My little trip to Easton for the Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar concert got off to a …
My Christmas present to the girls was a week of sun in Punta Cana, our first international trip since Covid. We originally planned to go to Aruba and I booked a nice room at the Hilton there more than six months in advance. By the time it came to buy airline tickets, we discovered that …
We had a weekend at the DC Wharf centered around a Tedeschi Trucks Band concert at the Warner Theater on Friday evening. I booked a nice “partial waterfront” room at the Hilton Canopy Hotel and made plans for several meals. Friday, February 17 Barb worked at home on Friday and said she would be done …
I watch a lot of cooking and travel shows. One of my all-time favorites was Made in Spain which introduced me to many of the regions, cuisines and dishes of Spain, and made me a fan of Jose Andres and his expanding empire of restaurants. During Covid, when Andres was not juggling the survival of …
Allie and Perri came to Maryland the week before Thanksgiving, then Allie and I flew to Denver to spend Thanksgiving with the Embreys. Barb stayed in Maryland with Perri. In the summer of 2021, we had a nice week in Colorado with the Embreys and had our first visit with Embrey Ann (Emmy). Sara invited …
Barb and I took a weekend trip to New York City so I could see the reunion concert of Our Native Daughters at Carnegie Hall. We had some other small adventures as well. I learned over the summer of a reunion concert for Our Native Daughters, the group formed by Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell, Amythyst …