“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” –Winston Churchill As we stand by the first tee of The Old Course at St Andrews I am in awe of my surroundings. Behind me is the Royal and Ancient … More A Duffers Dream: playing golf at St Andrews
May the road rise up to meet you and the wind always be at your back. – Irish blessing Despite Americans’ appropriation of Cinco de Mayo, few nations adopt another’s holidays. Outside the home country, national holidays tend to be small affairs. Americans on Corfu for the Fourth of July may burst into an off-key … More When the big blue marble turns green
Liverpool is full of the kind of people who go out on a Monday and couldn’t care less about Tuesday morning. – George Harrison Reid and I spent ten weeks in the United Kingdom’s fourth largest metropolitan area. And while it isn’t as big as London, Liverpool has a lot to offer – for short … More Top 10 things to do in Liverpool
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends. – James Joyce Dublin is a literary town. Bookstores, libraries, literary museums and tour, pubs where famous authors hung out, Dublin has them in spades. The city has contributed four Nobel laureates in literature … More An unlikely story (or what to read, see, eat and drink in Dublin)
Above us, only sky. – Motto of Liverpool John Lennon Airport My Ryanair nightmare wasn’t over. Every day for two weeks leading up to our anniversary trip to Dublin, I opened harassing emails from Ryanair asking, “Don’t you want to get through security faster?” or reminding me how I could save ten percent on an … More I never said it was a brilliant idea
Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs. – Henry David Thoreau I blame a lot of things on my mother. My high arches, baby fine hair, brown eyes and chocoholic tendencies are all traits I inherited from her. Along with her interest in cemeteries. A dedicated amateur genealogist, Mom’s idea of small talk around the … More Look what I found!
I’ve got a surprise especially for you, something that both of us have always wanted to do. – Two Tickets to Paradise With our anniversary looming on the horizon, Robie started hinting around about how 29 years of wedded bliss should count for something. By this, he meant he should be in line for a … More The one going down the low-cost carrier rabbit hole
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. – Thomas Keller Taking a page from Reid’s post last week about British Fare and the differences we found regarding variety, availability and names, I thought I’d share a gallery of some of the food we made at home and ate … More Gallery: Food from our time in Liverpool
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. – French President Jacques Chirac The best part about British cuisine are the names. While Italians love their women with pasta alla Norma, pizza Margherita and the indelicately named pasta puttanesca, France offers less appetizing fare that sounds like rat patootie (ratatouille), Coke in a van … More The Great British Marketing Scheme
If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven. – Charles Spurgeon Since Reid’s post last week was about walking the Camino de Santiago with her sister, I thought I’d put together a collection of church pictures from our time in Liverpool. After all, the destination at the end … More Gallery of Churches in Liverpool, Chester & Dublin
Reid & Robie 