Wicked tells the story of the two witches from Oz – Glinda and Elphaba – the good witch and the wicked witch. The London production we saw had a fantastic set and great singers – especially the woman playing Elphaba. I felt like I got the general gist of the plot in Act One and […]
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Quintessential London: our hotel room, laundry, and the British Museum
London is just massive. Almost 10 million people live here. I’ve had a few moderately successful visits over the years and London has remained squarely in the middle of the pack of cities I enjoy. London comes in way above Los Angeles for me but we haven’t bonded like I’ve bonded with Paris. So I […]
We welcome you to Finland!
We took a 2-hour ferry from Tallinn over to Helsinki. It’s a massive cruise-style ship with a casino, lots of shopping, even a Burger King. This seal wanders around, making the whole thing feel quite merry. The ship is quite a contrast to our Washington state ferries – this boat we took holds 2800 people: […]
Abandoning the Latvian goat farm for Estonian architecture studies
It turns out that the only things stopping me from having a goat farm are the goats, the smell of the goats, learning about milking the goats, and the muddy areas of goat farms. But, as always, Ron was more open-minded and was trying, for some reason, to get a goat to kiss him: We’re […]
Travels with Valerie 