We have just completed our first week in Istanbul, Turkey with 4 nights on the Asian side, and 2 nights. We will next go on a photo tour of Western Turkey, before returning here to Istanbul to stay a couple months. This post is therefore just our first impressions of the city. We are doing […]
Random Walk After Two Years, Part 2
Now that we have been in Cuenca for two years, we are going on a Random Walk of thoughts about living here. Part 1 of this walk was posted yesterday. We’ll open today with a collection of mosaics on walls around Cuenca, shown above. Perhaps one of the largest changes for us in coming to […]
White Thanksgiving
Finally! The snow we have been expecting for the past two weeks in Iceland! Only one problem… we are now in New Jersey rather than Iceland… 🙂 We returned to New Jersey to spend Thanksgiving with our long-time friends again, only to discover it snowing here, and much colder than it was in Iceland during […]
[Recipe] Chicken Tetrazini
This is a pasta dish that Evelyn used to make in California using the leftover turkey from Thanksgiving or Christmas. When I started cooking, this is one of the recipes I got her to teach me. Of course, I made a few modifications in the subsequent years. For one thing, I no longer wait until […]
Luggage, Mercado de Animales & Thanksgiving
This was a pretty full day. Probably the biggest news for us was the final culmination of The Great Luggage Journey. We went out to the airport this morning to get Pauline’s luggage… only to be told it still wasn’t here and “will definitely be on the next flight from Quito.” Since this was our […]