This weekend was all about family. When I was in college, my parents hosted an exchange student from Porto Alegre, Brazil, named Vitor. Our families have been close ever since and we think of Vitor and his family as our family. My mother decided that for her 85th birthday she wanted to visit Vitor and …
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Un blog especial para los profesores de ingles
This blog is mostly in Spanish, but you can use Google translate 🙂 It's for English teachers because it's that nameless exercise where someone writes a sentence, covers it up and passes it down the line. Here's the version TJ, another student and I created yesterday: Una noche oscura "Los adolescentes caminaban por la ciudad …
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Dance Party! (and there’s more)
Cacio e pepe in the making! Wow, did we have a busy weekend. Our friend Tamar arrived Wednesday so now we have another partner in this adventure. But even before I get to the dance party, I have to tell you about the very best dessert, which I had following fabulous cacio e pepe (yes, …
Iguazu Falls – the video
The enormity of Iguazu Falls is mind boggling and our “expedition” was broken into four parts, the lower trail, the boat ride, the upper trail and the Brazilian side. I have attempted to capture a taste of what it was like on video. I was using my GoPro, which I had not picked up in …
Iguazu Falls
We took a weekend jaunt to Iguazu Falls, about an hour and a half plane trip from Buenos Aires. For some reason we can no longer remember, we took at 7:30 a.m. flight. Not knowing how long it would take to get an Uber or what security would be like at the airport (not the …
Un nuevo continente, país y ciudad
Today we arrived in Buenos Aires. It is the first time either of us has been to South America and the first day of about seven months away. Sue took this one in the morning... We flew from Miami on Saturday night – our flight left at 11:15 p.m. and arrived in Buenos Aires at …
Washington, D.C. Roundup
We spent a hectic month or so in Washington, D.C., but I was a bit lazy about blog writing. OK, I was a lot lazy. Some of you know that we are partially hunting for a place to alight should we ever decide to do so. We are happy to announce that we think it …
London – the second weekend
We were lucky enough to have two weekends in London and we packed the second one as full as we could. On Friday night, Abi, Laurens, Sue & I went to London’s Chinatown for a relatively early dinner at Joy King Lau. We ordered about 10 different dishes all of which were yummy and managed …
It’s not goodbye, it’s see you next August (we hope)
On Saturday, we said goodbye to Seuss the cat (and Paris) again, but we didn't let a moment go to waste in those last few days, so I'm going to pretend we're still there and save London for the next installment. On Thursday, we took what we thought would be our last long stroll in …
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Ground Control to Major Tom
This was our last weekend for this trip to Paris as we are heading to London next Saturday. Friday night we decided to try a Mexican restaurant near Montmarte cemetery in the 18th arrondissement. The place had good reviews on Google but we are quite disappointed. The food was at best mediocre, the drinks were …
