An independent boutique publisher, founded in San Francisco in 1990.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2014
For those who care, the Morocco holiday experience is coming soon… When you know your time is limited (in Barcelona), you wake up every Saturday morning with an extra dose of the need to accomplish something, enjoy a unique experience, or absorb some level of culture. This weekend, we visited La Fundació Joan Miró, a museum […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2014
Our holiday trip to Morocco will take some time to sort out, so I offer the following mountain excursion to fill in the gap. With some extra days before school was back in session this week, we decided to venture up to the Pyrenees. Sources told us that the Val d’Aran region was worth the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2013
Has anyone heard of London Southend Airport? I doubt it. *Note that the following blog does not represent a travel guide in any way. While there are indeed selected tourist and restaurant recommendations, this was not a “cram London into a 3-day weekend” adventure, for better or worse. Friday, December 6 was a holiday, celebrating the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2013
Several years ago, while visiting Paris, we tried unsuccessfully to use the city’s new bike sharing system. We thought that any credit card would do, not understanding that the Vélib’ was only for locals. I was frustrated and hoped that one day I would indeed be one of these locals, or at least a resident […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2013
Torre de Collserola, Barcelona We are enjoying our time here, exploring the culture and history of Barcelona, with long tasty lunches, a slow pace of life in general, exciting and inexpensive travel around Spain and Europe, a fresh and frustrating language that we are trying to conquer (do they speak more quickly than we do?), and new […]