Tag: california
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Looking back at our trips in 2024, Part 2
Happy New Year ! On this blog, it’s become a tradition to look back on some of the places we’ve traveled to over the past year. Let’s begin with a jazzy classical piece. Click ▶ to play In the second half of 2024, we made one overseas trip to Europe. Our entry point was Heathrow…
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Looking back at our trips in 2024, Part 1
Goodbye 2024 – Hello 2025 On this blog, we have a tradition of reflecting on the memorable places we’ve explored over the past year. To set the tone, let’s begin with a track by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Click ▶ to play This post covers the first half of 2024. We started the Japan trip in Kanazawa…
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Looking back at our trips in 2021-2022, Part 2
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog in January to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. Since we took some time off from this blog, we will review both 2021 and 2022 together. Our previous post covered most of the places we…
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2012: A year of “foreign” travels
As the end of 2012 is drawing close, we look back to some of the places we visited this year. Let’s start with those that were outside of Switzerland. We will follow up with a second post of the trips we made in 2012 within Switzerland. Click to jump to the posts – there are…
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Fruits, Vegetables and Nuts
Just came back from vacation. We are feeling lazy and don’t want to write much. So here are some fruits, vegetables and nuts! They were taken in a supermarket in LA. The display (what display?) is just the opposite of Whole Foods where everything is neatly stacked into perfectly balanced pyramids. In this market, there…
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Lazy Dog Cafe, Cerritos
This is our 300th post ! Thanks for visiting and leaving comments. The adventure continues … For regular folks like us, the time to do shopping is mostly the weekend. But when all of us are shopping at the same time at the same places, the result is crowds and stress which strip away all…