Spain

Barcelona: Thanksgiving Dinner for 46

by zora on December 5, 2011

Every year since who knows when, our friend Frank Plant has hosted Franksgiving in his fantastically cool digs in Barcelona. By the time we got around to attending, it had already grown from a cozy meeting of close friends into an insane, overcrowded phenomenon, and shrunk back to a more manageable size. If you can’t [...]

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Everyone’s got a top 10 list! So I will too. I don’t know why I don’t do them more often–I certainly love making lists. Like a lot of people, I’m coming away from this year feeling like it was pretty craptastic. But the nice thing about making a list like this is that you (I) [...]

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On our Spain hiking trip, Peter and I swilled tinto de verano at every opportunity. It is the perfect wine-y refresher when it’s hot. (Beverly and I drank a lot of it on our earlier trip too, even though it wasn’t quite verano in April.) For years, I thought tinto de verano was just red [...]

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Spain Hiking Photos

by zora on June 26, 2009

Photos of the grand Spanish hiking excursion are up, all over at Flickr. Lots of pics of us looking winded and sweaty on hillsides, and some beautiful tomatoes and a very silly video of Peter trying out all the public gym equipment they have in the villages. Also, there’s a separate set from our afternoon [...]

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