The last time I wrote about Venus & the Cellar Bar, I got many comments from people interested in this new Easthampton restaurant. I have been wanting to go back and sample the cuisine, and tonight was a grand occasion to do so–my parents were visiting. Here is my earlier […]
I’m on the phone with a very persistent guy from Switzerland. He is trying to convince me that we should fork over $2 grand a month and he’ll give us all sorts of content like video, news feeds and articles. The deal is that they collect all sorts of travel […]
Back into the daily groove, things feel good. We just might be past the season’s unending, maddening rain, I’m thinking about a caprese salad of tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and basil for Friday night. Here are the oysters we slurped up last week on Carteret Beach. Wow, I can still taste […]
I joined 35,475 other Red Sox fans at the 503rd consecutive sell-out at Fenway last night. Despite the impressive record, I was surprised at how many desperate looking ticket scalpers greeted me along Yawkey Way. I held an extra ticket myself, and didn’t think I’d be able to unload it […]
I read a story at the end of the day, handed to me by editor Steve Hartshorne. This is a great way to end the day, to read about Will Allen and how he thinks we can save the world. It starts with his ‘small but remarkable’ farm in the […]
It’s great to be back to my beloved cafe and to GoNOMAD. I got a message on Facebook from another Iranian friend named Solmaz who I met while I was there. She has no qualms about posting controversial pro-revolution materials, as indicated by this cartoon she posted. Funny, when I […]
I wish customers could bring their little dogs into our cafe like they can do in France. Once again, it just seems more civilized here. We are set to travel today–perhaps the busiest travel day in France, the start of the vacation season. We’ll get an extra jump because my […]
We walked out onto the giant concrete barriers that provide a cushion against Atlantic Ocean storms and protect the pleasure boat harbor here in Granville. Even though it was 9:45 pm, it looked like it was about 6:30 pm, the barriers provided a long, long promenade from which to view […]
Today was the kind of day you hope to get at least once or twice during a working press trip. A day where we got up late, had a leisurely breakfast, and got on the road in this beautiful part of France with time to mosey into small villages, stop […]
We met Alain Travert in front of his oven. Tucked away into a non-descript shed, the oven where he bakes natural bread doesn’t look like much from the street. Inside, this retired bachelor farmer baker creates baguettes and country breads every day, and refuses to sell them to anyone. He’d […]
At the market in the medieval town of Bricquebec, all of the vendors ended our transactions with ‘have a good holiday!’ That’s because the country is practically all on vacation…people’s luxurious six weeks off begin about now. How civilized! At the market we saw crates of small chickens being loaded […]
