It’s raining!!
I didn’t even notice at first. It’s a sort of Apologetic Rain… in that way that seems to say ’so terribly sorry for this, but have to rain a bit… but you won’t notice, don’t worry..’. It’s a nice reprise from the heat.
Speaking of heat. I always thought it was so funny in England [...]

Reading though a few of my regular online ‘reads’ the other day, I stumbled High Maintenance Gimlets from fancytoast. I absolutely love, and totally agree with, her take on the high maintenance/high quality thingie… (Thanks to gastronome for the link originally!) I love cocktails. I have tons of books on cocktails, along with fancy glasses [...]

After the excesses of my birthday weekend at Calella, and here with a housefull of guests, Steve and I decided to take a li’l trip south to Valencia province. We’d never been south of Barcelona before (well, south of Reus/Salou) so it was all new to us once we passed that point!
The first night, we [...]

Inspired by mylifeinspain’s blogiversary (Congrats on 2 years and much more frequently updated than my own…), I’ve added one of those free service things from Bravenet, a guestmap over there in the sidebar. GO SIGN IT. Come on - it’s not difficult and it would be nice to see if anyone other than my dad [...]

Over 2 years ago, on this blog, I posted a list of nice hotels on the Costa Brava. It wasn’t a complete list, by far, but it was a collection of a few nifty ones I found that I would love the excuse to stay in. If it weren’t for the fact that I live [...]