Yesterday we got about 4 inches of very dry and fluffy snow, which is super pretty and gives a soft finish to everything. We also found out that our street is plowed when it snows. The snow added a whole bunch of white color for the wind to work with,…
John had a work trip to Cancun the first week of February and then is going on another to San Diego next week, so we packed our warmest clothes to spend this week in Michigan. We’d seen the wintery shoreline in January so thought we knew what to expect, but…
Readers may be looking for a post with warm scenes of Mexico, but we stayed in the Midwest for all of January this year. And you know what? It’s really cold! Jan 20 was a big day in the world – and in addition to items that made the news,…
Some posts don’t naturally form around one theme but ‘ice’ is hands down an easy theme for this one! Last night we had tickets for the international puppet festival, and we saw ‘Anywhere’ – a performance with a marionette made of ice. The puppeteer lives in Iceland and as we…
We had so much fun in Madrid!
We are staying on a very busy retail street in the centro in Madrid, and was I ever delighted and surprised to see that an exhibition of work by sculptor Jaume Plensa was open, right here on our street! Plensa’s work includes the towers with faces and water in millennium…
On Christmas Eve and Day we walked to Retiro park, which reminded us of Central Park in New York. For sunset we met up at temple David, a 2nd century BCE Egyptian temple that was a gift from Egypt to Spain. It’s reconstructed on a ridge with an amazing westward…
We took a bus from Granada to Madrid and have been enjoying the run up to Christmas here. Madrid is so vibrant and full of people, and the Christmas decorations and lights are super festive! Tonight, for Christmas Eve we made a collective dinner for the 4 of us plus…
Wrapping up an amazing 5 days in Granada, here are some highlights. 2. The Alhambra. We stayed in the same street that Miles and Zoe live on, right across from the Alhambra. So we saw the massive fortress above us throughout our stay, and we visited the extensive grounds one…