Ok, if the last post wasn’t enough to make you jealous, then this one could: the first appearance of wine! Oh and a little bit about Auckland. For the record these posts are in no particular order. The mountain phase in the last one was about 3/4 of the way through the trip. This postContinue reading “Auckland and Waiheke Island – New Zealand Journal Pt. 2”
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Hiking in the Southern Alps – New Zealand Journal Pt. 1
We have wanted to go to New Zealand for a long time but knew we’d need at least 2 weeks to really do it correctly. Last summer was ridiculously busy, being the first time we participated in farmers markets with the sausage business, so we promised ourselves a lengthy vacation this year before things startedContinue reading “Hiking in the Southern Alps – New Zealand Journal Pt. 1”
Return to Provence (Pt. Deux)
Happy Christmas and New Year’s! As promised, here’s the rest of the Provence trip in photos to round out 2017. Proud of myself for getting more than one post in for the month. In other words, it’s nice to have down-time.
Return to Provence! (Pt. Un)
In what is now an established Thanksgiving tradition for us, we journeyed abroad on vacation. Over the years we’ve found it is fairly easy to travel internationally during this time. Flying domestically can be quite a hassle with packed airports, but flights headed to Europe can be half-empty. We like traveling in the off-season andContinue reading “Return to Provence! (Pt. Un)”
A Passport Tells A Lot of Stories…
Happy Groundhog Day! Much like the wily marmot monax I’ve been hibernating a little bit. It’s all good though, more on that later. One of the things on my to-do list this week was to send in my passport for renewal. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years already.
Happy New Year! Cooking with Mom – Chicken Provencal
Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s. We finished off 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland spending Christmas with Cheryl’s sister Shelly and her husband Ross. On the way back we stopped off to see my family in the beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley of New York which is where we rang in 2017.Continue reading “Happy New Year! Cooking with Mom – Chicken Provencal”
Truffle Hunting in Provence
I didn’t want to put this in last week’s post because, let’s be honest here, black winter truffle deserve their own post. When we were planning our Thanksgiving week trip to Avignon I remembered one of the people/places I follow on Twitter is Les Pastras, a farm in Provence. But not just any farm. OneContinue reading “Truffle Hunting in Provence”
Avignon – Thanksgiving Week Abroad
I promised you some photos from our trip to Avignon in Provence and here they are! Too short a trip as always but that’s ok, because it just means we’ll have to go back. Over the past few years we’ve discovered traveling internationally over the Thanksgiving holiday/early December can be quite reasonable and enjoyable. Yeah,Continue reading “Avignon – Thanksgiving Week Abroad”
Joyeaux Thanksgiving from Provence!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! That’s right, we’re abroad in Avignon, France for the week and will be settling in for our own Thanksgiving dinner (duck breast) as soon as I make it. Much smaller affair than if we were back home and it was very easy to do all of the shopping this morning. Warmer thanContinue reading “Joyeaux Thanksgiving from Provence!”
I’m Supposed to be Drinking Beer in Germany
It’s really weird to be home when you’re supposed to be somewhere else. This week’s regular post was supposed to be interrupted by a trip to Germany to see my brother and his family…but…things didn’t quite work out that way.
The Roaming GastroGnome 