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Reality TV Time: Drama on Board – Bravo’s ‘Below Deck’ and Soccer
My main sleeping buddy XFE (Petunia is merely backup) is back from his father-son golfing trip, and I’m thrilled. Finally, someone to cook for me and make me laugh. Petunia is useless in the kitchen and her jokes are pretty lame. For example: What did the calico say to the bowl of food? Crunch. I…
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Friday Links: Bunnies and Breaking Bad Edition
My bosses have been out this week. By bosses, I mean my editor, who’s on vacation this week and next. And my lifestyle-coordinator-manager XFE. He’s abandoned me for a cross-country golf trip with his dad to celebrate Senior XFE’s retirement. This means I have to single-handedly run a multimedia information empire (hey, we post videos…
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Hotel Crashing: Le Meridien Lav Split
I’m pretty fond of French fries. So you’d think I’d be excited about finding a French fry in our very fancy room at Le Meridien Lav Split. A singular French fry on the floor in the sitting room of our allegedly recently clean, certainly recently entered room. It became our mascot. Whenever we would leave…
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Croatian Dermabrasion: The Ancient and Improved Split
Every time I hear the word “laser,” I think of Austin Powers and Dr. Evil’s “frickin’ sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.” Which is kind of how I now imagine Split got its recent laser makeover – sharks with laser beams trained in the fine arts of architectural preservation. I’m obviously completely…
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Hvar: Island of Hvarguments and Hvangovers (Part II)
(To read the gripping first part, click here.) We awoke the next sunny day, admitted how stupid the fight was, and moved on. We had big plans that involved laying in a cabana on a private beach club on a tiny uninhabited island. Carpe Diem not only has the most thumping open-air dance club in…
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Hvar: Island of Hvarguments and Hvangovers (Part I)
Lest you think our vacation to Croatia was just sun-dappled blissfulness every single second, I bring you Hvar. Actually, Hvar was really a nice little beach town. It was quaint, with narrow medieval streets, cute little square where throngs of young people sat in the shadow of a large church talking and eating ice cream,…
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Links: Naked and Afraid of Sharks Edition
Hope everyone had a great weekend. My personal master-of-the-remote XFE and I certainly did. I suppose you heard that we’re having a heat wave up here in the Northeast, so we did the safe thing, and spent Sunday lying on the couch with a couple of pitchers of watermelon-mint-tequila-aqua-fresca watching the first four episodes of…
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Croatia: What Goes With Oysters? Pasta Cake of Course.
Meandering around medieval cities, popping into photography museums, and lying on pebble-y beaches is all well and good. But what I really like to do on vacation is drink wine during normal business hours while my fellow cubicle dwellers are in over-air-conditioned purgatory. So, we went to the Peljesac peninsula for a day. One of…
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Wars, Orphans and Orbs: Dubrovnik’s Old Town
My travel buddy for life XFE and I live in a part of Northern Virginia/Greater Washington DC area known as Old Town. It’s pretty cute. Full of cobblestone sidewalks, antique shops, and historic buildings with plaques announcing that George Washington once drank some cider on this exact location. Most of the old houses, churches and…
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Hotel Crashing: Villa Dubrovnik
I was riding the metro to work the other morning, a pretty mundane task, since I’ve done it pretty much every working day for the last 10 or so years I’ve been in D.C. It was 7:45 in the morning and already a muggy 78 degrees. I had just walked the 10 minutes from my…