Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
A several days visit with our folks, long overdue for the two of us coming in from overseas, but there was this little viral thing. It was some much-needed family time, even after the roadtrip. First stop as we headed north out of Nashville, with Parlor Doughnuts fueling our systems (well, two of us anyway),… Read More I’ve Been Everywhere Man…
On to Music City. Sorry you weren’t here with us, but we’re chugging along. First stop, one of the Birmingham branches of Big Bad Breakfast, 1926 29th Avenue S, Homewood, since we’d been thwarted with our plan to visit the original when passing through Oxford, MS. Chicken and waffles, a breakfast scramble of sorts, or, my… Read More Nashville Without You
Heading south out of Memphis last Saturday morning, our goal was a late breakfast or brunch at the original of the now multi-location chain of Big Bad Breakfast. We headed for Oxford, Mississippi, where, unfortunately, we discovered that it was graduation weekend at U-Miss, and on arrival at the restaurant, found there was a minimum of… Read More Down in Alabama, Mississippi…
Now that we’re back out and about and doing things and going places, we’ve started to pack in some “culture”. Last month, actually, all within one week, we hit up three events, of very different sorts. Henry was invited to dance with another dance company at the Carnavale Andino, held at the Amphitheater in Parque… Read More Cultural Trio
A nice afternoon rest in the hotel, out to dinner, a good night’s sleep, and up in the morning to finish off this tour, heading west and north this time. The first stop is a couple of blocks from the hotel, nice and convenient. Enroute is the large, one block square Plaza de la Intendencia, which… Read More Walking Historical Córdoba III
Picking up from where I left off yesterday…. The first thing I did was completely missed one church/college, the College of the Immaculada, and its associated Church of St. Francis of Assisi. It only got a single sentence in the text in the middle of a paragraph about St. Teresa where I left off yesterday,… Read More Walking Historical Córdoba II
About fifteen years ago, I ran across this book on a vendor’s table at one of the numerous street fairs here. This was what I said about it then: Anyone who travels extensively, especially in Europe, is probably familiar with the Blue Guide line of guidebooks. In some ways, not as “friendly” as your average… Read More Walking Historical Córdoba I
John Coghlan was an Irish engineer, born in 1824. Educated in Paris, and several years of work on various European railway lines, he was recruited at the age of 33 by the Argentine government as a consulting engineer to work on various projects related to railways and the Buenos Aires harbor. He supplemented that work… Read More The Engineer’s Barrio