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Category Archives: Travel
Tuscan Trifecta
Pistoia, Montecatini and Lucca Massive snowbanks line our street and yard-long icicles hang outside my window. The temperature hovers around ten degrees. From the Maine deep freeze, I recall a warm and sunny afternoon in the Tuscan Hills. Ready for … Continue reading
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St. Emilion Afternoon
by Guest Writer Chris Akerlind We left Bordeaux, heading roughly 40 kilometers east, for an afternoon tour of St. Emilion, a hill town in wine country named for an 8th century miracle-working monk and confessor who found home in a … Continue reading
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The Thin Man Day
My friend Kari says we should’ve called our last post The Thin Man Day because we spent the whole time drinking and being intrepid. I’m an artist. He’s an engineer. He reads maps. I read menus. He calculates exchange rates. … Continue reading
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Looking for Ricky Martin in Old San Juan
So we missed the organic farmers market by 24 hours but caught the San Juan Museum whose antiquities and ephemera include a display on intentional cranial deformation. Mixing high culture and medical oddities always makes us hungry, so we indulged … Continue reading
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Sangria in Old San Juan
We love: 1. Red Sangria 2. Blue cobblestones 3. Food trucks 4. Restaurant Barú We have 24 hours left and plan to find a few more. Oh, and guess what’s on TV at our hotel, the hip and arty … Continue reading
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Tagged beaches, boats, breakfast, Caribbean vacations, Cocktail, Da House, food, hospitality, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, rum drinks, Sangria, tropical, Wine
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Breakfast by the Bay
We grab a giant breakfast sandwich down by the Vieques ferry terminal and eat on the pier admiring the shades of turquoise. The sandwich is awesome and feeds both of us plus the scruffy pier-dog at our feet. We discover … Continue reading
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Tagged beaches, boats, breakfast, Caribbean, coffeehouse, food, hospitality, Puerto Rico, rum drinks, tropical, vacations, Vieques, WiFi
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A Vieques Valentine
Ah, Puerto Rico, at last! Gorgeous, noisy, humid and wild. We are determined to taste and savor all week long. This is not a place for “sipping” – this is a guzzler’s paradise. Our first coup has to do with … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day
Here is an early valentine to the world and to one of my favorite fellow travel writers, Necee Regis – an awesome writer and a great friend.
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Mr. Poggi’s Gift
A mysterious package arrived by post yesterday from our friend Mr. Poggi in Monterosso Al Mare, Cinque Terre, Italy. It was heavy. We thought it might be a bottle of his wine or maybe another encyclopedia-sized slab of pancetta. It … Continue reading
Epicurious Portland, Maine
My Little Epicurious History Lucky me. I landed in Portland, Maine, overlooking beautiful Casco Bay. Brick wharf buildings and cobblestone streets line our gritty working waterfront. The historic Old Port and downtown Arts District make for a vibrant and incomparable … Continue reading
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