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So where did all the culinary goodness I wrote about take place? At a very special place. The Willows Inn. A property that has been servicing Pacific Northwesterners for a century. These days the focus is on the food that chef Blaine Wetzel creates on a nightly basis, food that…
Many people dream of living in New York. Sex and the City has influenced many lives more than we can imagine…To walk its streets full of different people pretending to be terribly stressed, with one mobile in one hand and a huge coffee in the other. Or to eat a…
Codfish or bacalhau is an essential part of Portuguese cuisine. The food, in general, is rich and varied due to the colonial past of Portugal. The Portuguese were great explorers and brought back many types of spices that were used to make the dishes as tasty as can be: cinnamon, saffron,…
Before I get into our final days in Brittany I wanted to back up and tell you about our trip from the Hôtel de la Plage in Sainte Anne La Palud to the Le Fort de l’Ocean in Le Croisic because on the way we had the most amazing lunch…
Having arrived, rested and thoroughly enjoying our first afternoon at Relais Chateau property Le Fort de l’Ocean, the next treat in store for us was dinner. As was customary at all our other stays on this trip, we planned to try out the hotel restaurant for at least one dinner. After being…
Despite the fact that we spend a lot of time in Europe, my husband and I have started to make an effort to also see more of “America” well. This year we went to Washington, D.C., the San Juan Islands, and small trips to Sonoma, Big Sur, etc. We still…
Day 3 we were still at the Manoir I mentioned in Part 2. We woke at a reasonable hour and headed down for breakfast as it was supposed to be included in our room charge. Only no one came to serve us. There were boxes of dried cereal, a single…
In part 1 guest poster Amy provided her tips on how to be Parisian in San Francisco, a place she used to call home until she met her French husband and moved to Paris. I get to thank her in person on October 15th when we meet at the Paris…
If you read travel magazines (I do!) or watch travel shows, whenever they talk about the best road trips/drives in America it is likely that the Highway 1 route between Monterey and San Simeon is going to be towards the top of the list. This gorgeous, completely unspoiled stretch of…
It’s not easy to find a public toilet in Paris, and nearly impossible to find free ones. There are a couple of options for using the restroom when nature calls. You can use the public toilets that are found on the street called sanisettes, some of them are free others…
Welcome back for the last part of my Paris trip report! If you missed Part 1 or 2 you can catch it here and here. Friday (11/27) Friday we woke with a mission. The mission was food. What else is new, I know. But this was different. We were going…
Welcome to Part 2 of the recap of my recent Paris trip. If you missed Part 1 you can go back and read it here. Wednesday (11/25) Okay, so the plan was to go to Versailles and spend the day in and around the chateau. The only problem was, we…