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Unos pican, otros non: August 2011
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Saturday, August 13, 2011. As is often the case, the culture shock coming back has been worst than the culture shock going over. Here are some of the things that have astonished us in the now seemingly foreign USA. Everyone around us is speaking English! How can that be? Don't they know Spanish?
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Unos pican, otros non: London Calling
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Sunday, July 3, 2011. Hello, mates. Or is that more Australian? My test is always, "Does it sound more like Monty Python, or Crocodile Dundee? But I digress. Recently, we were in London. And before I get more of those "Don't you ever work? Out of my head the entire time we were with them. Sadly,...
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Unos pican, otros non: May 2011
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Sunday, May 29, 2011. We had a choice here. Either the four of us could spend a week in Madrid, cramped into our 2-bedroom apartment, or we could all go on a fun trip. Which would you have chosen? View of Trujillo and countryside. And had fun wandering through its old cobbled streets. Susan had very...
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Unos pican, otros non: Customer Service, Part II
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Thursday, July 28, 2011. Customer Service, Part II. But a more practical challenge lay between us and our so-called real lives back in C'ville, and that was packing. We are now on day three of the great packing extravaganza, and I am happy to say that everything that can. Be packed right now has.
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Unos pican, otros non: March 2011
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Tuesday, March 8, 2011. My mom comes to Spain. Did you know I was there. When Columbus got back from his trip? OK, now that I have the Big Hunk of Meat off my chest, I can tell you about my mom's visit at the end of February. No, more like Train of Hilarity! About to be swung into action. We saw Sta...
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Unos pican, otros non: Did he really say "troglodyte"?
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Saturday, July 23, 2011. Did he really say "troglodyte"? Zoë and Sou'ad work on marinating the lamb. This is the story of our Morocco trip, Part II. One of the true highlights of our stay was a cooking class we took at a place called " Café Clock. And for Mohamed, more sugar. Just try and top that.
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Unos pican, otros non: September 2010
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Monday, September 27, 2010. Life in Spain so Far: Lo que pica, y lo que non. As Zoë has amply demonstrated on her blog, the Spanish concept of a salad is completely alien to us. I am even less enthusiastic about canned tuna than she is. Less of an issue now that delici...
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Unos pican, otros non: Home at Last
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Saturday, August 13, 2011. As is often the case, the culture shock coming back has been worst than the culture shock going over. Here are some of the things that have astonished us in the now seemingly foreign USA. Everyone around us is speaking English! How can that be? Don't they know Spanish?
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Unos pican, otros non: Off on the Road to Morocco
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Friday, July 22, 2011. Off on the Road to Morocco. At one point, we were standing in the Medina (the old downtown, dating from the middle ages) saying to ourselves, "How could we have ever considered skipping this trip? Why would we have done so? Took us around the perimeter of the medina first, to ...
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Unos pican, otros non: Going Cuban in Castile
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Unos pican, otros non. This is the official chronicle of my adventures while on sabbatical in Spain. Accept no substitutes! Pimientos de Padrón: ¡Unos pican, otros non! Padrón Peppers: Some are hot, some not! Sunday, November 7, 2010. Going Cuban in Castile. We had a great time with them, going to museums, eating tapas. Fried dough with hot chocolate) and cochinillo asado. Roast suckling pig). All this despite the occasional shower, and/or soaking downpour. Churros con chocolate. Lunch was at Casa Duque.