“Very bad. You almost ran me over – you almost killed me! Why are you driving all the way over on the wrong side of the road, and on a corner?”The driver looked at me apologetically. On this particular corner, he said, the proper side of the road was badly sloped. He pointed ...
When I booked our lunch at The Fat Duck back in March I was sitting at my computer in my lounge room waiting for the clock to roll over to 12 noon UK time. After I missed out on the ballot for The Fat Duck when they came to Melbourne I figured I had to at least try and get ...
Brown tried very hard to move up to 60kg. She ate more baked chicken and pumped more iron, but her power didn't quite translate. When the International Olympic Committee, in association with AIBA, recently ruled that no additional weights would be added for the Rio Games, it was a blow ...
TD Five Boro Bike Tour heads rides through Central Park © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com Taking over the streets: TD Five Boro Bike Tour goes through the FDR tunnel © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com Riding over the Queensborough Bridge © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear...
side near the line of trees along the pathway and the unlit bamboo torches (well it was daytime) we were given menu’s from the waitress and all identified the Balinese Set Lunch for $19.50 per person as what we wanted to eat. The Set Satu consists of Green Papaya and Vegetable Salad,...
I was glad it was not any bigger and that Icelanders drive on the right side of the road. When we saw the meager blankets that came with it, we were really glad we had packed our sleeping bags. Since the van did not have a toilet, we would need to find a campground each night ...
But when famous chefs with major outside funding declare at conferences that everyone should start a sustainable farm upstate which they can’t afford, it’s insulting. “Stop living in this romantic universe,” Baxtrom says, “Because it’s not real. And you’re ruining it by saying that...
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