Walking Again

After spending the morning inside watching the rain I remembered I am a Londoner now and I grabbed my umbrella and my raincoat and I trotted off to a far off grocer on a new route hoping to find a pair of boots. I didn’t find the boots but I did find a really good […]

In the Neighborhood Today

I think I really love where we have chosen to stay in London. Today I am waiting for a delivery, and after receiving an email from the delivery service I checked in online and saw there were 83 deliveries before me. Isn’t that clever. So, if I want to run out to see something or […]

Sunday Market on our doorstep

With food and clothes and cupcakes and bread and any sort of junk you an imagine… First order of the day – Lunch We had some unusual and very special “pig raised on a farm where they are blah blah blah” with magnificent roasted potatoes topped with a duck egg. We brought home pork for […]

A Day in DC, yes, Xiao Long Bao

We stayed in Rockville, near he Glenstone. We were only coming in for the night but found ourselves with an extra day so came down Friday and had today, Saturday, to see what’s what around here. Breakfast (lunch) was at Bob’s Shanghai 66. We ordered both chicken and pork soup dumplings. Bothe were good. And […]

A Most Amazing Day

Corrado Bakery has good bread and a nice chocolate mousse I met the Curator from the Lucio Fontana show at the Met Bruer I learned all about Pierre Bonnard I watched a wonderful documentary on HBO The Price Of Everything I recorded as I stood in the met galleries I resisted temptation to buy a […]

LA BONNE SOUPE

We searched this place out because we both had a memory of ha omg been here. A long narrow old time French restaurant where we had shared lunch with a lovely man seated alone next to us Last time we had a croque. Tonight we are looking at pan seared sole and braised short ribs.

La Bergamote

I have a new policy that I want to make a reservation for dinner, no matter where, ahead of time so that on the day of I am not searching for a place to go at the last minute. So I booked us into La Bergamote before a night at the Joyce. It was nearby […]

CODINO

Walked past after visiting Cadillac house. With an enticing menu in we came. We had sworn off Caesar salad but the place had the right feel so we started with a perfect salad. Much to our surprise The bread was good with a tangy olive oil that was not overpowered by the olives. Then some […]

A DRIVE THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA

The goal for the day is to get to a stand in a Newmar Bay Star 3215.  perhaps this will be the RV for us… Nope, too small, not us… but it was a lovely day.  We headed out and wound our way to and through Milford. Over an old bridge. We rode along the […]

Beauty & Essex and Il Laboratorio del Gelato

We are meeting new friends for dinner.  They are doing a tiny house build, doing it themselves.  They are charming ( they are reading this).  We meet down on the Lower East Side at a ‘see and be scene’ place called Beauty and Essex.  Little tapas plates of food in combinations you only get at […]