by Eileen | Nov 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Let it never be said that English has not done a number on Spanish, with it’s Nova (won’t go!) cars, and it’s sarna (mange) lotion, and a number of other products and names that you’d just as soon leave on their shelves, or undiscovered. And...
by Eileen | Oct 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Wine and bike, bike and wine. It sounds like the ideal combination, zooming past green-topped vineyards hung with grapes, pedal, creak, cork, glug, and so on. In practical application, I went at kind of the wrong time of year, so the vineyards were dry and cut back,...
by Eileen | Oct 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
There are people who like the transit part of traveling. The bus, the plane, the boat ride. They say getting there is half the fun. I do not understand these people. For me, hyper (or amped, as I like to say) to a fault, sitting still in an enclosed space for a long...