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Just One Push
We saw this while in the excellent Martinsbräu in Freiburg im Breisgau, that jewel among German cities — possibly the most Mediterranean of the cities of the German south. The whole place is downstairs one level, under the busy city food market above. There are booths and tables set near the big copper brew kettles [...]
Some interesting carnival stuff
Just going through the blogroll and revisiting some old favorites preparatory to cleaning the present list up. One I’ve always liked is “Rubber Slippers in Italy”. Here Rowena posts about the Carnivale in Schignano and its traditions about the Bei and the Brut — “the Beautiful and the Ugly.” Peter read this over my shoulder [...]
To Dover, and beyond!!
Well, not too far beyond, we hope. I’ll sure be watching this on the lunchtime news… (ETA: Postponed to Sept. 26 due to cloud / bad weather in France.)
“The Big Meow” ch. 8 update
Folks, just a quick word: this week has become unusually disrupted due to other work that’s going on in-house, so I’m going to have to postpone the chapter posting until just after the 27th. Unfortunately the chapter’s just not ready to go up yet, the in-house crisis won’t allow any work on any other projects until [...]
Useful: guide to available meals & food charges on US airlines
In the NY Times travel section. Tags: food, prices, US+airlines, flights, US
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