Foodyssey

19 October 2007

The Sun is Hotter in Barbados

Saturday the 6th we stepped off the plane back into the states after spending a week in Barbados. It was a strange sensation, like stepping into the middle of a really busy street after being inside some place very quiet and still. When I drove to the store the next day, the steering wheel in my hand and the road beneath my tires were suddenly unfamiliar sensations. It wasn’t that I had been isolated for a week or that I hadn’t been in any vehicles, I had, it’s just that suddenly jarred back into the faster pace of life in the states.

Barbados is the southern most island in the Caribbean and is actually a part of the British West Indies rather than the American side. You can tell because they like cricket there, a lot, and they drive on the wrong side of the road. The accent, however, is not British, but something else entirely. It took me days to finally successfully understand what people were saying.

Comparatively, Barbados a large island, but you can still make the circuit of it in a relatively short amount of time, barring traffic in the capital city, Bridgetown, or along any of the smaller roads. The Bajans don’t seem to to have much stock in highways or even particularly well-paved two ways.

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6 July 2007

Rome, Israel

While waiting for the stewardess to open the hatch and allow us to disembark, two men had moved up the aisle and stood in front of me. One of them was a tall lanky guy, dressed like a tennis player or a runner, with dark hair and olive skin. The other was older, with the […]

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16 June 2006

Loving Another Country

It’s strange to think that I was in France just 2 months ago.
There are posters hanging in our apartment (that we finally hung up) purchased from the dealers on the Seine’s left bank. Their “stores”, large metal and wood cases that hang over the edge of the wall above the river that fold and lock […]

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23 May 2006

The Way Restaurants Should Be (Part I)

I have been slow to post any of my thoughts about our recent trip to France, so I decided to get off my duff and post something. So here goes…
During our journeys across the hexagon of France, I constantly found myself impressed by the cafes, bistros, and restaurants we frequented. Of course […]

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4 May 2006

France 2006 - First Impressions

Sunday, we returned from our week and a half stay in France. On the plane ride home, we veered north along a slightly different flight plan and from the window you could see the water dotted with white specs of snow and ice. It looked as though the waves themselves had been frozen in mid […]

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