Shipboard Food Shipboard Food

Our cruise boat has very nice food, served frequently. When I get home I'll post some photos. Meanwhile, watch maetravels.blogspot.com f...

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07.32

Iguana eating beach plants Iguana eating beach plants

The land iguanas on Plaza Island (visited yesterday) eat beach plants, which store water in this season. The plants are very beautiful: some...

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05.21

Lunch onboard the Eclipse Lunch onboard the Eclipse

Note: we drank coke with our lunch. Galley of the Eclipse where they actually cooked our food For pictures of some of the wildlife we saw to...

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21.06

Today's Breakfast Today's Breakfast

After our own breakfast we walked back to the Darwin Research Station up the hill, and saw the same turtles as before -- eating breakfast. W...

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12.17

Begging at the Fish Market Begging at the Fish Market

These must be fantastically fresh fish. But what really struck me was the baby sea lion begging -- and the fisherman (or fish monger, I don&...

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17.46

Eel for breakfast? Eel for breakfast?

On a beautiful walk this morning, I saw a most unusual sight: a heron who had a large eel in his beak, and was pecking and eating it. My exc...

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11.33

Lunch Lunch

The tour I took today had lunch at a small cafe on the island of Floreana, pop. 110, electricty entirely solar, maybe with more tortoises th...

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18.13

Silly Post: Airplane meal Silly Post: Airplane meal

We have arrived in the Galapagos. Airplane meals are so scarce, I took a photo of this one. Mostly, I'll be posting photos of wildlife a...

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12.40

Blintzes for Shavouth Blintzes for Shavouth

After making blintzes, I began to wonder how and when this dish and many other dairy foods became associated with the early summer festival ...

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15.00

Julia Child Lives Julia Child Lives

Just a note to say that I made a Julia Child recipe for dinner, accompanied by the sides she recommended. A ragout of duck in which the sauc...

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18.35

Happy Mother's Day Happy Mother's Day

This is my present. Miriam and Alice picked it out for me on a visit to the Smithsonian. I bet they are cooking something for Evelyn this mo...

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04.42

Fascinating Languedoc Fascinating Languedoc

In this week's New York Times travel section is a very wonderful article about the Cathars and the area where they lived in southern Fra...

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13.48

I knew by the aroma that it was my mother's blintz recipe I knew by the aroma that it was my mother's blintz recipe

I knew by the floury, eggy smell when I whisked the crepe batter that this was really my mother's blintz recipe that I was making. The s...

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16.41

Garden Radishes Garden Radishes

Radishes came up in Miriam and Alice's garden and grew into delicious readiness without anyone doing anything this year. Did they reseed...

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17.52

Dinner at The Wine House Dinner at The Wine House

Last Friday we decided to go to dinner in downtown Fairfax. Here's Alice putting her car seat in our new car, and then Alice and Miriam ...

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