When we two and a half years ago left Singapore for France, we hardly thought of returning. After having closed the credit cards and claimed the credit points we had accumulated during our 5-year tenure on the tiny island we ended up having quite a few Singapore Airlines miles. When […]
A week after our Budapest trip we were in Paris for an extended weekend. We stayed in the Voltaire/Bastille neighborhood again. We found street after street lined by “boutique shops”, run mostly by Asians and selling the most horrendous outfits for shockingly low prices. Some of them had particularly creepy […]
We have a home cooked dinner practically every night, weekdays and weekends. Sometimes when cooking we get sidelined by simple things like the information on the incredients we are using or questions on the TV game show we are watching while cooking. Then we spend some time frantically searching the […]
We love to live in the place with seasons, not only seasons in weather but also in fresh produce. Earlier this Spring, like last year too, we had a citrus fruit season when an abundance of mandarines, clementines, and satsumas were available (of course lemon, lime, oranges, and grapefruit are […]
It’s been three years since we last visited our friends in Chinchón and three years since we ran our last street marathon, also in Madrid. As usual we arrived at Madrid-Barajas T4 and picked up our rental car in T1, and then drove about 50km south to Chinchón. On our […]
We don’t bake much, probably because we don’t have cravings for sweet things, and finding good bread at reasonable price here is easy; we have at least five boulangeries within a couple hundred meters, plus a number of pâttisseries and cake shops. Today’s weather is bad enough, so we want […]