For those 3 readers not following the other 3 readers who follow us on Facebook, here’s a little piece of news: Mr. Wild Dingo and I got to meet some very famous Internet celebrities, in the FUR! Last week, we met up with Norwood and his bean along with Jack, Moo and their hu-mom. What [...]
“Something tells me we’re not in Switzerland anymore, Princess.” “Really? What clued you in Sherlock?” WARNING: Educational post to follow. Read at your own risk. Now that we’re so over that rainbow and back to reality, I want to share what we’ve learned from our experiences in preparing for a long overseas flight with dogs.
It wasn’t at all as I expected, Monet’s House and Garden in Giverny. I envisioned a quiet estate, square or round in shape, with a long driveway that would lead to the front. I imagined it unconnected from the noisy, harried world. Instead, it was located in a busy village, where motorists pass right through the middle of the two [...]
I know what you’re thinking. How can anyone be miserable in Paris? I assure you, it is possible.
For me, there’s nothing more exhilarating than being high. Don’t get your panties in a bunch. I mean on a mountain range.
Continuing our Zermatt Hiking adventure, we headed out our hotel door and chose an ‘easy’ route for our first hike. I wonder what has Mr. Wild Dingo’s attention?
We arrived in Zermatt in 10-15 minutes from Tasch. I’m not a skier so I was unfamiliar with how things worked in a ski village, but a car-free ski village left even more questions. Like, how the hell were we going to get to our hotel, which sat above the town? But right off the train, [...]
”Whatchya got there pop? Two train tickets for peeps and two train tickets for pups to Zermatt, the best husky hiking in all of Switzerland? Oh please say it’s true!”
Can you believe I have to take a 40-minute plane ride just to get a decent pizza? At least the view never gets old.
Dog lovers generally like or love Loki when they first meet him. They’re fooled by his charm. Even Bernard, our kennel keeper, had a mile-wide smile the first day he met him. “He’s well-trained,” he said. But that was before he chose to live with the whacka-cracker while we vacation. The last time we picked up the dogs after [...]
“It is better to do nothing, than to be busy doing nothing.” I’ve had this knot in my stomach all week knowing I’d have to leave the cracker and the criminal at Bernard’s doggie spa and camp this week. Bernard was fairly exhausted by Loki’s crackery on the last stay. There are so many great [...]
When we travel, Mr. Wild Dingo focuses on history and ancient sites. I focus on landscape, culture, city vibe, pretty things and cuisine. So other than my gluttonous indulgence in Italian cuisine, I had only one other mission going to Venice: glass. And lots of it.
Our hotel was just a 1-minute walk from the Bridge of Sighs. The enclosed bridge with the two square windows connects the prisons to the interrogation room in Doge’s Palace, which by the way was much more stunning than I anticipated. A local legend says that lovers will be granted everlasting love and bliss if [...]
Maybe I’m biased, but Italian food is hands down, the best cuisine in the world. Most often it’s simply prepared but can be as equally elegant as French cuisine. In Italian cuisine, flavors are raw, original and not subverted. While French cuisine is complex, flavor can sometimes be hidden or overtaken. Italian food on the other hand, never [...]
Not long after Mr. Wild Dingo and I moved to Switzerland, we found a perfect pizza joint close to our house. By definition, this joint was homey, rustic, with plenty of miss-matching furniture, packed with locals and a friendly service staff. It even had home delivery and take out services. It seemed like the perfect solution for a [...]
The Venetian Fort overlooking Chania’s outer harbor. Chania, Crete’s Venetian quarter, was the perfect place to stay. For centuries this tiny harbor port area has been fought over and controlled by Minoans, Mycaneans, Romans, Byzantinnes, Ventians, Genoese, Turks and Egyptians.
“Bulls and boobies,” said Mr. Wild Dingo as we left Knosos, “that pretty much sums up Minoan society.” Well, sorta. There were plenty of other symbols around Knosos.
The first thing you notice about Cretan culture is the impact of spiral design on both ancient Minoan and modern-day art.
For fun, Mr. Wild Dingo and I read our “compatibility horoscope” while in Crete. The 14-page document basically summed up that we both liked to do everything in excess. In other words, we’re luxury enablers.
Airplane window view passing over the Alps returning home to Geneva from Crete. On the flight to Crete over the New Year holiday, we flew very low over the Alps. The pilot seemed to circle them and the airline attendants ran around excitedly telling us to look out the window. The pilot flew very low for stunning [...]