Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
Okay, I woke up still stuffed from the previous day’s series of small plates that seemed to stretch out all day long. I vowed that this would be a lighter day, and also one with some exercise in it – a few miles of walking about the city, and a two hour dojo workout handled… Read More A Little Lighter….
Perhaps it’s a bit of the seven year itch, but even after 24 hours back here in New York, I’m finding this to be the first time I’m seriously thinking about the stuff here that I really miss, beyond the usual off-hand quip about bagels and good sushi. Just walking through the Union Square Greenmarket… Read More Things that Come to Mind
Bagel, Oysters, Pizza. Kind of the new acronym for what to eat when hitting the ground in New York, at least within the first few hours. Uneventful flight, all the warnings about how bad United is to fly simply were’t true – the attendants were great, the seats were as comfortable or un, as any… Read More B.O.P.
Rama Tours launches new Buenos Aires food tours for iPhone/iPad including two of mine – San Telmo & Recoleta! Android version coming soon…. [Edit: They went out of business about a year later, never did pay me…..]
Finishing off the last full day, dinner at what’s currently rated the top of the creative cooking spots in Asunción. So, it was off to Mburicao for another pig-out…. Pretty room, very spacious, lots of separation between tables. Similar crowd to the night before at Tierra Colorada – picture the four women in the corner… Read More The Asunción Wrap-Up
Woke up on day three with sharp pain in my left foot – swollen up, bright red – no idea. Could barely walk. Iced it down, took some painkillers, hobbled my way a couple of blocks to the pharmacy, pharmacist looked at it, examined it for any possibility of a bite or something, we agreed… Read More Museum Day
One of the things I was warned about before coming was the combination of heat and humidity that I was going to encounter in Asunción. I was prepared, but the first two days were rather mild – Sunday was in the high 80s, but not particularly humid, and cooled into the mid-70s in the evening.… Read More The Heat
You might get the whole rest of the trip (so far) over the course of today. It’s a rainy day – though at this point more just sprinkling, and I’d planned it as a museum day – but, I can’t walk. Don’t know what I did, but woke up with what I’d guess is a… Read More The Official Buildings of Asunción