Month: December 2009
Our Christmas Dinner 2009
Our friends, two sisters – YS & HS, are notorious for their elaborate dinners – all made from scratch, with no substitutes or shortcuts. We have been fortunate enough to know them for more than a decade and had enjoyed many Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners over the years. YS just finished renovation of her apartment…
NYC food porn: Telepan #6-#10
For Telepan’s menu and photos of our appetizers, check our earlier post here: Telepan #1-#5 One of my pet peeves about restaurants has always been the lighting, which is mostly way too dark to see what is on the plate. At Telepan, the room was comfortably lit. The waitstaff was professional and the tables were…
Maps: Playa del Carmen
[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=51+Grand+Cove+Way,+Edgewater,+Bergen,+New+Jersey+07020&t=h&layer=c&cbll=20.609414,-87.089393&panoid=Q5b3JvBt7kbjb9V4m3ioJQ&cbp=13,137.84,,0,-2.54&ll=20.609368,-87.089396&spn=0,359.975882&z=15&source=embed&output=svembed&w=562&h=314] Peiling suggested in a comment that I should include a map of the area visited along with my travel-related posts. So, here is a couple of maps for the earlier posts relating to our November trip to Riviera Maya. You can see these posts here: Traffic Jam @ EWR Adventuras de Chris y Sue Six…
A Most Beautiful Drive in Iceland
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0BgQVAZZC4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] This place is one of the most beautiful and serene places I have ever visited. We were in Iceland during the summer and happened on this stunning view of Þingvallavatn on our first day out of Reykjavik to do the Golden Circle sights (Gullfoss, Geysir, Þingvellir). I was driving at about 15-20 mph while Sis filmed the…