Plum Tart

A recent post by Sara on her blog Safari reminded me of one of the reasons I created this blog – to share recipes, whether they are common Western dishes, more exotic Asian, African, Mexican, etc. dishes that I’ve picked up over the years or simply local specialities from wherever I happen to be at [...]

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Hungary

In early September (I don’t feel like posting the exact dates online…) I’ll be off to Hungary for a week and a half of bathing, wine-tasting and cake-eating (with possibly some touristy activities like visiting that big old parliament building on the side).  After spending a couple of days in Budapest getting my toes and [...]

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Villeneuve lez Avignon

I spent the afternoon yesterday wandering around Villeneuve lez Avignon, a town just across the Rhône river, opposite the well-known city of Avignon. While Avignon is fairly large, with a huge influx of tourists during the summer months, Villeneuve-lez-Avignon remains very quiet, despite being just a few kilometers down the road. Although Avignon is a [...]

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That disgruntled, ripped-off feeling…

Today I bought some new reeds for my clarinet, and I noticed that they now come individually wrapped.  They’re Vandoren reeds (well-known) and come in a box of ten, as before, but each one is individually wrapped to keep each reed at the ‘ideal’ environmental conditions before use, in particular during shipping and storage.  I [...]

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Solitary sojourns of my mind

Earlier today, while lying on my bed listening to the strains of Pascale Picard’s Gate 22 on the radio and watching a trio of flies who had found their way in through my open window and were lazily buzzing through the hot air in a rectangular pattern a few inches below my ceiling, I began thinking about [...]

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What a difference a day makes…

… 24 little hours.

(Sorry for the sun in that one)

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Storms

One of the things I like about the Mediterranean climate is the weather. Obviously, yes, it’s sunny – about 300 days a year on average. But what I almost prefer are the storms. You occasionally get a dreary drizzle like in the UK, but more often during the summer you get spectacular [...]

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