You are here: Home / travels Above, from left to right: my new sterling salt spoon resting in a salt cellar, two demitasse spoons of different sizes, a standard teaspoon Lightening isn’t right, but you get the idea. I did polish each piece before I took the picture. Really! Our first stop after we made the decent into the Mississippi Delta
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The Thompson House Bed & Breakfast in Leland, Mississippi. We’re breaking in a new Farm sitter this weekend. Left yesterday morning headed for Greenwood and the Viking Range store. Pretty sure the $20,000 six burner, two oven range will not fit in our kitchen. This is a good thing. Who wants to figure out where
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Mr. Big Food was an invited lecturer at the School of Ideas in Neuroscience–a week long summer school of sorts. Most of the participants were grad students and post-docs. The organizers had arranged for the group to walk to a joint on the river for beer and supper on the evening of the first day.
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It was a pleasant visit, except for the coming and going (and the taxi drivers which we will come to). Mr. Big Food was occupied all day every day, I think 10 to 5 or so, from Monday through Monday, with a free (hardly) day on Friday. From my travel journal: “Found a nice shaded
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When in New Orleans… It was quite good. I would not have expected otherwise at Galatoire’s. Unfortunately, the shrimp in remoulade was over cooked. A disappointment which disappeared as soon as the dozen oysters Rockefeller were placed on the table. If I’m remembering correctly, we had oysters three times. All delicious, though for my money
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At the far end is the train station, to which our hotel, The Scandic Grand Central, is attached. Across from the station’s plaza is the Center City Mall–complete with groceries in the bottom floor and food court on top. Center City encompasses the area south and east of the train station to the harbor, where
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This was Sunday, 06/04 or as denoted across the pond, 04/06 which created some confusion, and along with several other issues, resulted in our not getting to Santa Clause Village. So we went for a walk along the Kemijoki River. If we ever go back again, I’d like it to be in the early fall,
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in Rovaniemi! I am not a dyed in the alpaca wool shopper. But when in Finland… This is the young woman at the Marttiini shop at the mall in Rovaniemi inscribing grandson’s new knife. The mall was at the city center. As we learned, grocery stores occupy the lowest floors at Finnish malls. That market
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This deserves a post of its own. (And yes, we worked to stage this picture. It deserved it.) If we had known Friday afternoon–or even Saturday–what we know now, things would be different. We would have a bottle or two of Laplandia Lingonberry Vodka in our drink cabinent. Unfortunately, it was not until we searched
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June 3, 12:28am …cloudy day. Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland is at the Arctic Circle–Land of the Midnight Sun. Sadly, it was overcast and cloudy almost the entire time we were there. But as you can see, despite the clouds, even after midnight in early June, still 20 days from the Summer Solstice, it was not dark.
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A ‘puukko’ is a Finnish sheath knife. This, the Marttiini Suomi-Finland puukko, is a real beauty and it is on my dining room table. FINNISH LION CAST IN BRONZE The roots of the Suomi-Finland knife go back more than 20 years. When Finland celebrated 80 years of independence in 1997 Marttiini naturally celebrated the event
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We are back on Farther Along Farm! It was a once in a lifetime trip, but it’s good to be home. Thank you, Dear Readers, for putting up with all of the repeats I scheduled to post while we traveled. Below are the links to the eight posts I managed to put up while we
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More traveling! I am fairly certain I’ve done the DANGER! motif before. But it’s worth repeating, don’t you think? Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
Lapin puikula is a Laplandian potato, only grown in the very northern regions of Finland and Sweden. It is a delicacy. I can testify to this. It’s a small, almond shaped spud with a very high starch content. The preferred method of cooking is steaming, because they are so delicate. The preferred mode f eating
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The root of the word sustenance is the same as the word sustain: from the Latin sustinere, to hold up. Sustainability is a big deal where we are right now. For example, the thermostat in our room is capped at 23*c. That’s like 73 in my real world. Perfectly fine except when the room is
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Reindeer tartar with yolk and French style rémoulade. I have never had anything quite as good.
The reindeer tartar last evening was excellent. picture to come. I am keeping a running handwritten journal with much more detail. This was this morning as we we preparing to take off. Pretty sure the pilots had breakfast in same hotel where we were. They were decked out. I’m glad we went to Rovaniemi first.
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Definitely worth detouring to if you’re in the Lubbock, Texas area. Bit of a travelogue, with pictures from the surrounding areas, here.
John queried the staff to discover just how the reindeer was smoked and with what wood. So we’re good to go when reindeer make it to the Farm We split a main course of pan fried white fish, the local potatoes, broccoli raab, cauliflower. all the veggies in some nice little whitish sauce. The pan
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