And here’s how it all started. – Glenn Fry during The Eagles’ “Hell Freezes Over” live concert Robie and I were returning to the scene of the crime. Years earlier, we translated our birth certificates into Greek, made an appointment at the U.S. Embassy in Athens and got permission to marry in a foreign country. … More Athens: A new 5,000-year-old city
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
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
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern – Samuel Johnson These establishments of social gathering are part of the fabric of life in Great Britain, dispensing food and libations along with providing a venue to watch their beloved English Premiere … More Gallery: Pubs, A British Way of Life
All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting. – Paul Theroux I used to avoid reading travel narratives. I just couldn’t stomach following someone else’s voyage down the Amazon or trek across the Himalayas. Not when I so desperately wanted to be the protagonist in a far-off adventure and reading their … More The Pillars of Hercules
So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food and drink beer and make friends? That’s the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we’ll come out of it all right. – Supreme Court Judge Sandra Day O’Connor Interior décor at Los Magueys in Inverness, FL … More One Bite riff II: A tour of Mexican restaurants across the American South, con’t.
Mexican [food] is perhaps the most misunderstood cuisine on Earth. – Anthony Bourdain Spinach quesadillas at Manny’s Uptown Beef fajita nachos at Mi Cocina [Warning: this post may induce cravings for Mexican food and/or TexMex.] After cheese, Robie and I believe Mexican cuisine and TexMex are the two most important food groups on the pyramid. … More One Bite riff: A tour of Mexican restaurants across the American South
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? – Rush Hour Willie Dare, Perpetual Alien sat on the examination table looking at his right hand with disbelief and fearing that this time his cultural curiosity might cost more than he was willing to lose. As Willie continued staring at his swollen … More Willie Dare takes a trip to the hospital
One understandably believes oneself, as if rapt to heaven, to enter one of the chambers in Paradise. – Author’s name withheld You’re standing inside a royal chapel surrounded by one of the most extensive collections of 13th century stained glass anywhere in the world. As you turn 360 degrees and see light streaming in through … More Where are you now?
Reid & Robie 