The Mediterranean Diet Myth
Much has been written about The Mediterranean Diet and usually the focus is on how much red wine you can drink without feeling ashamed. Occasionally, they mention increasing your consumption of eggplant […]
Category Archives: Activities
Quick and easy: Cheesy Dinkel
Quick and easy dinner much inspired by our last trip to Italy and the contents of my pantry. We had leftover chicken breasts and the rest of the ingredients were loitering in […]
The Feminine Mystique – book review
“…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the […]
The Sun Also Rises – Book Review
“The bulls are my best friends.” I translated to Brett. “You kill your friends?” she asked. “Always,” he said in English, and laughed. “So they don’t kill me.” The Sun […]
Manarola – another pearl on the Ligurian coast
We stayed in Manarola this year and it was so wonderful to see the city different times of the day. It was rainy during our stay but that didn’t dampen […]
Staying in Manarola – La Torretta
If you want to feel like a princess make sure you stay at La Torretta on your next visit to Manarola. Well, first of make sure that Manarola, part of […]
Orange soup
We are having a slow going spring here in Emden and soup still sounds good. They are predicting warm weather for the weekend and I spotted southern German white asparagus […]
Tuscany
Beautiful Ruins – book review
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter My rating: 4 of 5 stars I wasn’t familiar with Jess Walter but the recommendation from NY Times bestseller list enticed me but it was […]
Biarritz
We spent the last of our summer vacation last year driving around France. A three-week road trip from Lille in the North to Biarritz on the Atlantic side to Cap d’Agde on […]
Corniglia – one of the five pearls in Cinque Terre
Corniglia is a town for billy goats. If your feet hurt just thinking about climbing 382 steps don’t get off at the train station. This year, we met a sweet couple with […]
Spring is here. Well, it’s coming right?
Time to make some bug spray. While we are waiting for Europe to thaw, I thought I would get ready for spring. Spring means bugs. Especially here in Germany; mosquitoes, […]
