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The Bridge of Reconciliation – Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sometimes I travel somewhere because the place holds an obsessive grasp on my memory and my imagination. Images from television news reports or sound bites overhead on the radio may have imbedded themselves…
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A Week of Sun and Sea in Dubrovnik
Having never been to the Balkans and looking for some sun before the long winter hibernation, Kenz and I booked a late summer getaway to Dubrovnik on the Adriatic Sea. Also looking to…
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Britain’s Finest Hour
The 7th of September marked an important anniversary for people in the United Kingdom. Having conquered or subdued the entire European continent, and having formed an alliance with Japan that was performing similar…
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Hej from Sweden!
The scene felt strangely familiar, even slightly cinematic in a distinctly “Bergmanian” way. Transported by ferry through the Stockholm archipelago, we shared the late morning journey to the island of Vaxholm with a…
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36 hours with Friends from S.F.
This weekend we played tourists (again) with friends visiting from San Francisco. Kenz’s friend from his S.F. office and his girlfriend stopped through London on their way to Greece to attend a wedding…
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A Review of “Ghost Stories” – Duke of York Theatre
Before getting started on a recent West End play that we saw with a group of friends, I want to take a moment to highlight a very key difference between myself and Lily…
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July: A Month in Review
It’s hard to believe that we’re well over half-way through the year – time sure flies! The month of July went by in a blink of an eye with many evenings spent watching…
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Family Time, Part Deux
Lily and I just had a fantastic weekend with my little cousin who visited for the weekend on her way home to California from a pre-MBA trip to Turkey, Croatia, Greece and Italy…
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On the Cornish Seaside…
We couldn’t pick a better weekend for an escape to the Cornish coast given how hectic work has been the last few weeks. For those who need a lesson in geography, Cornwall is…
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To Market, to Market
Last weekend we celebrated 4th of July with our favorite Americans at the All-American Beer Festival in Shoreditch. We spent the afternoon laughing over several pints of Sierra Nevada, Blue Moon, and Brooklyn;…
