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We love taking public transit and Barcelona has an outstanding bus network.

Our trip to Spain provided a break from our focus of the past six + months of constructing our own pavilion in our rear yard. The original inspiration for our project was a home in the US designed by Mies van der Rohe. It turns out Mr. van der Rohe also designed a similar PavillionContinue reading “Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion”

Marlow looking satisfied with our meals at Xampanyet.

October 26, 2014On the first night in Barcelona we went to dinner at a favorite place from our last visit, La Cuina d’en Garriga. It is small. Four tables on the sidewalk protected from the traffic by a glass paned wooden screen painted fire engine red. Inside there are about eight tables. Along the wallsContinue reading “Barcelona: La Garrida, Tickets, Kaiku”

BarcelonaOctober 23, 2014 We have come to Spain for a two week journey. We have been here before, many times. This time is a bit special as it comes near the end of a challenging year. Here are a few words about what we are up to. It is a challenge to write about Barcelona.Continue reading “Barcelona, October 23, 2014”

Tuesday, 13 November 2013 Heathrow AirportLondon Our European trip is concluded. We are en route home…in business class. I am pampered. Wes is too good to me. I appreciate it. London was a whirlwind of outstanding things. The River Cafe was warm, comfortable, expensive, sumptuous, delicious. Wild grouse quick roasted in a huge orange wood-fireContinue reading “Grand Finale, 13 November 2013”

The Takacs Quartet performed in Bath Spa on Saturday morning so we arranged to make a day trip out of the opportunity to hear this great Quartet perform Beethoven, Smetana and Mozart quartets.  Quite a nice way to spend two hours on a rainy Saturday!  We will also be hearing the Takacs perform a slighlyContinue reading “Excursion to Bath Spa – Nov. 9”

The Eurostar train takes you from Gare du Nord station in Paris to the center of London in just over two hours time.  We are staying in a modern short-term apartment building in EC1 – just north of the LSE campus on Rosebery Avenue.  We arrived on Marlow’s birthday so a celebratory dinner at theContinue reading “London and a Birthday”

BM and Wes 12th c. glass windows Before leaving Paris we wanted to visit Chartres Cathedral located just an hour south of Paris.  Our friend Bernard insisted on driving us and it was wonderful to have not only a chauffeur for the trip but a well informed guide as well!  Among the Cathedral’s many distinctionsContinue reading “Scenes from our last days in France”

Montmartre5 November 2013 We are in London. It is wonderful. But there was more to tell about Paris. Here it is… We were at the Salle Pleyel on two evenings for concerts. It is a large venue. Two thousand four hundred seats. We selected our seat locations so as to be near the stage whereContinue reading “Montmartre, 5 November 2013”