Monthly Archives: August 2014


Spain, blablacar and France…part deux

Okay, this is my last night in Spain and I am not looking forward to the next 24 hours.  I made a last minute change to my month-in-Spain-plans to visit my friend Max who lives on the French border with Switzerland, and because we all know how useless I am […]


Flashback…Spain, blablacar and France

I came home last night to a bunch of comments from my nephew and it inspired me to finish this up.  I should have turned comments on sooner, but I just get so much xanax, handbag, penis-enlargement and mail-order bride spam that I just turned them off and posted links […]


It’s China Wok Time!

I know this looks like an advertisement for an Asian escort, but it’s not.  It’s my last night in Athens and I just got back to my hotel after a long day of Athenian hill walking and swimming and archaeology and museuming and I was looking for some Asian food.  […]


Wacky morning in Paros, Greece, just like old times 2

I really want to finish writing about Spain and France, but just have to post some pics of Greece before I go to sleep.  It’s really great to be back on this crazy island after 12 years.  Seeing friends, archaeologists and museum guards I haven’t seen for ages is really […]


Txotx! Txakoli! and flying buttresses 2

It feels so wrong to still be posting about Spain after spending close to a week in France and now sipping a nasty ass instant frappe (oh how I missed these!) from a boat in the middle of the stunning Aegean Sea.  I can’t believe I haven’t been in Greece […]