Paris loves jazz. We love Paris. We love jazz. But we haven't had a chance to put them together until this visit. We kicked off our not-holiday weekend with a trip to 38Riv, a teeny, tiny jazz club (about 40 people were able to squish in (tiny is being quite generous, the room was about …
Ooh La La
Yay, we're in Paris! OK, so the weather is not what I would call great, but who cares? (Steven does, but he's been quite whiny about the cold lately...It is cold. I don't like it.) We have to tough job of watching Seuss the cat and a beautiful apartment from which we can stroll around …
On the Move (On Our Feet)
Last week was a very busy, if not particularly productive week. We joined a gym on Monday, and Sue has been pressganging me into going every morning. If death marches weren’t enough for the weekends, now I have to do them on a treadmill (and other forms of torture) every day! On Wednesday we found …
Just a Little Bit of Walking
Valencia is where the red pin is I thought it might make sense to provide a few maps that will give everyone an idea of where we are that way when we discuss distances, places etc, it will make sense. As Sue said in her last post we are staying for the next six months …
Valencia, vale
Or home, temporary home We've been here about a week now, and like everywhere else we've been (except Santiago) we've fallen in love with it. We have a pattern of investigating real estate, discussing how we would make it work, dreaming of life in _____ (fill in the blank), talking through the practicalities and then …
Our final few days in Berlin
Wednesday morning, we signed up for a driving tour that followed the outline of the Berlin Wall, in a Trabant! For those of you who are not car buffs, the Trabant was the standard car in the GDR from the early 1960s until reunification. Over that period, the car basically did not change. The one …
48 Hours in Motion
Plus: Is 9+ miles a death march? The answer, of course, is a lot. This was our only full weekend in Berlin and we didn't want to waste a minute of it. Guess what? We didn't. As per our usual, we mapped out a walking route that came out to a little less than 10 …
Wir Mögen Berlin oder …
O nos gusta Berlin or We like Berlin (except for the weather) We've been in Berlin almost a week now and we like it. Steven complains a lot (OK, almost nonstop) about the weather, which is kind of crummy. Damp, cloudy and chilly. Plus the sun disappears at 4:30 (the sunrise is allegedly 7:30am, and …
Happy Idiots: Year 3
The third round of the Happy Idiots tour started on Tuesday night when we flew from Miami to Copenhagen. We are spending five days visiting the city in part to visit Sue’s niece Jillian who is studying art there for the semester. We took an overnight flight that stopped at Heathrow and we arrived in …
Here We Go Again
I sit here writing this in the home of my wonderful mother-in-law (yes, I can always use more points for excellent sucking up) where we are once again leaving the Saab. The next leg of our adventure awaits. You probably know the plan: Copenhagen to Berlin to Valencia to Paris to Valencia to Kenya to …
Doing It On The Road 