Queenkv’s Brainpickings

Hello 2007.
Time to make resolutions…and later bang my head against a wall for not keeping them. Still, I think I’m making some reasonable promises to myself.
1. Get back to the gym - ASAP: I ate too much on my vacation and I expected that. When I’m in Cali and Vegas — I don’t want [...]

Anthony Bourdain in Puerto Rico….looks like a beautiful place to visit…live…relax. I’m relaxing with my VCR’ed episode. I need to get a new deck ’cause this machine keeps eating tapes. It’s old and hungry. Just like me when I’m watching No Reservations - and Bourdain stops at restaurant and watches a cook chop up [...]

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Most folks fuel up at the Vegas buffets….or sit around the tables and slot machines to get drink comps. I like making it through Vegas without pigging out at a buffet (which are getting more [...]

heading to Ireland soon…
I know I must have missed something….France…Italy…the Czech Republic….Damn…three months is not enough to do Europe….
I still wanted to hit Madrid, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin, Athens…..I don’t think it’s going to happen in these last two weeks.
Let’s see….in Paris - I loved the little crepe stands open until the early morning hours….I loved [...]

sitting inside kava kava kava (that’s czech for: coffee coffee coffee)…..catching up on e-mail, news and AIM. sipping a ’stradi’ latte….the foam is so thick on this latte - you can pour sugar on top and wait a few minutes before it sinks into the espresso.
it looks like it doesn’t matter what country I [...]

I must admit…I do love a hotel that offers an Internet Point…in the middle of Rome. I typing at a Win 98 machine…and the room as a beautiful fresco lit by blue lights…and getting used to the damn Italian keyboard.
Italy was beautiful. Flew into Pisa and took a train to Florence
Went to the Uffzi and [...]

sigh….listened to Women on Top and Radiohead as I read the headlines from news.google.com….updated my blog….
I got my portal site to pull excerpts from Cali Blogs and more….
read e-mails…..
all from the comfort of my home. heck…even had time to make breakfast - fried egg with cheese. We’re trying to get rid of the food-that-will-spoil-soon stuff [...]

we want to go to Stonehenge tomorrow…trying to see if we can make it an overnight trip or not…
also want to go to Prague….
just bought tix for Italy….meeting up with our DC buddy for a road trip through Tuscany….
Mark’s mom is dropping by for Thanksgiving and tour through Ireland….
we just got to England…and now we’re [...]

it inside the Museo del Corso…sounds like an improv jazz concert in the other room…Mark and I are sipping chianti….
Mark: “All roads lead to Rome…but not all flights…we had to take Ryanair to get here and Easyjet to leave…”
You don’t want to take too much luggage on Ryanair…they smacked us with a $200+ charge for [...]

blogging from porte maillot…waiting for the 10 euro shuttle to take us to Paris-Beauvais airport…going to Italy…Mark said he’s going to get by in this country speaking English….I bought a loney planet book on Italy from Jaymie in ur Medill Global Program for 20 Euros. Who do you think will survive?
Gotta remember to cover on [...]