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scenes from a lunch in Barcelona in and around Las Ramblas
While in Barcelona, we stayed close to La Rambla, a busy commercial street in the central part of the city, made up of several other streets and plazas that collectively are known as Las Ramblas. This...
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Food porn: poached shrimp at the Wine Bar and Bistro
I’m trying to catch up on all of my favorite Capital Region places before the Dude and I head off to Chicago for a few days to pack up my stuff and say goodbye to my dear ol’ Windy City. Then we hit...
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photo: this is what Friday night looks like
After an 11+ hour day of work, relaxation was on my mind….and yes, that’s a case of $1.99 wine from Whole Foods. Only the best for this woman.
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photo: mid-afternoon snack
I’m in a blogging slump. Writing all day at work makes me just want to come home, eat dinner and drink wine. This saddens me. I’m working hard to overcome this. BK’s mother and grandmother came to...
View ArticleThe WhamBamThankYouMa’am Tour: Santa Cruz and San Francisco in approximately...
So Bk’s sister and her boyfriend came to visit this past weekend. Unfortunately, it had to be a very brief visit so we were ready to try to pack in as much as we could. And as things usually do with...
View ArticleThe WhamBamThankYouMa’am Tour: Santa Cruz and San Francisco in approximately...
Part 2: We left our hearts in San Francisco Recap: BK’s sister and her boyfriend came to visit us for Memorial Weekend, arriving Friday evening in SF and leaving from there early Monday morning. Left...
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The (not-so) long, strange trip to Davenport
Yesterday I had a hankering to go berry picking. I packed up some water bottles, Ms. Ruby Tuesday and a very tired BK, who’d just run eight miles as part of Team in Training, and we set off on Highway...
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Santa Cruz Alcohol Appreciation #2: Northern California Chardonnay
BK and I’ve been on a quest to enjoy white wine, so we decided to have our second chapter of Santa Cruz AA focus on that most ubiquitous of Californian whites, Chardonnay. We ended up with about 15...
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A fall day at Burrell School
Sunday marked the time for us to go pick up our quarterly wine shipment from the wine club Brian joined, Burrell School. I joined Bonny Doon, which is presenting its next shipment this weekend. Our...
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A very wet Christmas: wine and weather watching at Vino Prima
We don’t get snow here in Santa Cruz during the winter, but we do get rain. And lately, we’ve been getting a whole lot of it. For most of the past weekend, the rain poured down, turning our driveway...
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