I’m back in Avilés now after a weekend spent in Ribadesella, a seaside town in the eastern end of Asturias. We spent yesterday afternoon canoeing down the Sella River and let me just say that four hours of paddling down a river after months and months of hardly any sort of exercise at all was [...]
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The sky is clear blue, not a cloud in sight. The temperature slightly cool in the shade at 25 C. A light wind stirs the trees outside in the garden and although I am fighting off a cold (damn airplane air), I am very content. We are here in Logroño at the DH’s brother’s house. [...]
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I’m in Spain! I’ve already eaten my way through two cities! Lots of observations coming soon!
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Visible moon (a rare thing) and Olympic lanterns on the road to/from the Qingdao Airport I work at an airport. I’ve lived at an airport. I’m in the process of traveling from one airport to another. I’m not too sure how it will feel to land at Barajas Airport in Madrid tomorrow after news of [...]
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Woohoo Spain! They’ve won the 2008 Euro Championship! The game was held in Vienna against the team from Germany (the favorite to win). Spain hasn’t seen a victory in the Euro Championship (or any international football competition) since 1964. It would have been an amazing match to watch in our neighborhood pub in Avilés! From [...]
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I realize I’m a few weeks late with this, but I’d like to give you an idea of what New Year’s Eve (or Nochevieja) is like in Spain. Looks familiar, right? Christmas tree & stockings My sister-in-law Tuky is the one in the family who puts up all the decorations. She made all of the [...]
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This week the DH & I became aunt & uncle for the 10th time! My sister had a healthy baby boy on the 20th. Congrats! Baby nephew Seth is not the only new addition, however, a very special dinosaur also joined the family on New Year’s Eve: Shrek – a Pleo dinosaur Shrek (so named [...]
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New York Times is featuring a special series on the devastating impact of China’s “epic pollution crisis.” It is worth reading, although I feel like I’ve read all of this before. It is painfully obvious to anyone living in the PRC just how degraded the environment is, or how at risk many areas are for [...]
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Okay, I have to know. Is the entire world being bombarded with Bruce Lee’s sage advice to just “Be Water, My Friend” or is it just Spain? BMW recently released a commercial featuring an interview with deceased martial arts star Bruce Lee in which he tells the camera to “be like water” in a really [...]
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Okay, I have to complain. I just went to the ESPN website to see what they had to say about the F1 race. First of all, it was virtually impossible for me to locate the link that led to ONE story about the race. Then I read the story. HORRIBLE! Who is this writer? They [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
