While Monty Python may have suggested some rather unsavory things about Yorkshire, it’s my favorite place in England. My godmother Tamar lives there in a 500 year-old stone farmhouse, with little heating and two-ton stone-slab door lintels that I always crack my head against. The door lintels are only 5′10″ high (that’s 180 cm for [...]
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I flew out with friends to Oregon. It was a mini-reunion, like the old days from college when we were on the crew team together, though the welcome addition of laughing children to the mix reminded us we were not kids anymore, but in a mysterious twist of fate had somehow become responsible [...] I spent New Years in Vermont, celebrating with a few friend. Intent on getting as much time on the mountain as possible, I went to bed early on New Years Eve so I could be the first on the slopes New Years day. It was a great plan, except for one hitch – the temperature [...] I was able to spend four days snowboarding in Austria with friends, and flew into Germany a week early to see other friends in Berlin and Cologne. We stayed at snobby St. Anton in Austria, where our waiter insulted us for drinking ‘rain-water’ at the dinner table, despite the mineral water for sale was bottled only [...] |
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