Someone once asked me why I am willing to try so many different kinds of food. Not talking about choosing the tripe Pho over the chicken Pho or the lengua (“tongue”) burrito over the same old carnitas one but the tendency to order dishes from the very bottom or back of the menu. The ones…
Category: THE MAIDEN VOYAGE
Viennoiseries (“Things of Vienna”)…
Austria, Vienna in particular, makes you feel, no matter your economic or social standing, like an oaf. A lumbering, uncoordinated, unsophisticated oaf. Undeniable refinement pervades the city and extends to the rest of this landlocked country. It makes you wonder though. Why so much fanciness? Could it be because Austria is surrounded by the European…
So this is Europe (our first impressions)…
I’ll be honest. Austria is not one of those dream destinations if you are a fun-loving thirty-something couple. At least, it wasn’t for us. But Austria is as European as they come. Even more so as it was, we later found, the seat of the great Hapsburg empire. With this in mind, the country is…
Hatethrow Airport…
And so after a restless night of vacillating between how to vengefully finagle British Airways into giving us compensatory travel vouchers, suppressing the irritational fears that carrying on with this fateful vacation would lead us to landing at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and your garden-variety giddy popstar-crush excitement, we finally boarded the plane;…
Love at first bite…
We dabbled only once internationally in our twenties. A weekend tryst in Cancun. It was really only in our early thirties when the relationship started to heat up. The travel companion of a friend we affectionately call our “Seattle-mom” (Heidi) backed out last minute and she had no one to accompany her to Europe. Would…