Month: November 2009
Six days at the Riviera Maya
Temperature was perfect. Alternating days of sun and fluffy clouds. Spent most of the time by the pool/beach, a couple of days in a cabana. Did some reading, staring at the turquoise sea, sleeping, people watching, ipod, swimming, Nintendo DS, sipping tropical drinks … Repeat.
Haute Cuisine without Mao Zedong
For the trip to Mexico, I picked up Fuchsia Dunlop’s sweet-sour memoir – “Shark’s fin and Sichuan pepper” at JFK. I have read her article(s) in some travel/food magazines before, but did not realize the full extent of her immersion in Chinese food culture. I will post more about her book here. When I saw…
ETRO Relent
“Energy vibrates from the magical spirals; impressions loaded with universal symbolism. Aromas, colors and symbols, typical of tribal art, dedicated to today’s new age travelers.” Sue started giggling as soon as Chris started reading the bottle. Sue: Pshhaw! As if! Who writes that bull crap?! They may be full of it, but it sure sounds…
Adventuras de Chris y Sue
It all started with Chris being antsy and very anxious to get away from home and work. I, on the other hand, wanted to just stay home. We have so many things that needed to be taken care of! But no, Chris was very adamant that we go away. We went to a local travel…