Today on Food on Fridays we celebrate the return of one of my blog features, The Doughnut Diaries, a series I added to the blog back in Tübingen.
Food on Fridays: Return of the Doughnut Diaries
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Puddle Palms, etc.
Ladies in waiting
The building we’re currently staying in here in Melbourne is a small 4-story building which happens to share a parking lot with a taller 7- or 8-story building. The buildings don’t really look alike, although they both share a similar nondescript look with all the other condo buildings around here. Continue reading
Travel Tuesdays: The Spanish (San) Sebastian
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I forgot to mention yesterday that the Florida town of Sebastian was actually originally named San Sebastian, a fact which ties very neatly into today’s Travel Tuesday post, as I give you a peek at the Spanish town of San … Continue reading
Monday Mystery: Sebastian and the Grouches
I can’t promise to revive my old Monday Mysteries series every week here on Two Together. But I do have one for today: the mysterious origins of the secondary motto of the city of Sebastian, Florida. It appears underneath its main claim to fame (Home of Pelican Island) on the welcome sign into town: Continue reading
Food on Fridays: The Legendary Arnold Palmer
Today on Food on Fridays we’ll taste a beverage that apparently has become ubiquitous in the U.S., at least in Florida: the Arnold Palmer.
Complications of a Donnerstag Due
“Thursday Two” in English doesn’t have the same ring as combining a bit of German (Donnerstag) and Italian (due), even though it means the same thing. So it’s thanks to Chris for this alliterative title for today’s post, which first came about because we realized this morning that we’ve been in Melbourne now for 2 weeks, and the U.S. for 2 months. 2 major milestones of a sort.
Scene by the Causeway
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We are staying near one of the main causeways here across the Indian River, called the Melbourne Causeway. Chris has started getting up to go for a walk across the causeway for exercise, and yesterday he came back and reported … Continue reading
Travel Tuesdays: Melbourne Marina
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Today I’m introducing a new planned weekly feature, the “Travel Tuesdays” post (thanks to Chris for the name!). My idea is to spotlight something about a place that we’ve traveled to on our Plan G adventure.
The Saga of our TCLE
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Signs of assimilation back into American culture or just bowing to the pressure of necessity here in the U.S.: last week we bought a new-to-us used car. As Chris has said, that’s a nice short sentence, but our adventure was … Continue reading