food and life in the foreign service
A year ago today, my dear friend Chrystin married the love of her life. Although she was not the first of my high school friends to get married, it was the first wedding that both Grant and I were able to attend, other than our own. We had so much fun at the beautiful, winter-themed... Continue Reading →
I love Christmas. This year was nice because even though we are living in a country that does not celebrate our Christmas, they have their own -- so the Christmas season is even longer! To get into the Christmas spirit, in early December we took a long weekend and went to Vienna to check out... Continue Reading →
I had always wanted to spend some time in Slovenia in general, and at Lake Bled in particular, and we managed to do it Labor Day weekend 2013. Bled is a cute little town; the lake is truly magical. Walking around it and looking at it from the castle high on a cliff, I felt... Continue Reading →
This year, we went to Paris for my birthday. We took a few extra days to make a long weekend longer and had a wonderful time. Neither of us had been to Paris before but we both really enjoyed being there -- I loved it (duh). On my actual birthday, we saw some pretty churches, went to... Continue Reading →
Grant and I went back to Croatia a few months later, except this time we went to Istria for truffle season. This had been a dream of mine for some time and, ever since we watched Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations episode, we had really wanted to go to a number of specific places and restaurants... Continue Reading →
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