One of the things Lisa really wanted us to do in Mexico was to see a football game. Almost as soon as we landed in Mexico ...
I’m posting from my iPhone SE while travelling—it’s the only device I have with me. It works, albeit in a fiddly way. The ...
This morning’s experience in Guadalajara: immersion in a huge crowd for Les Girafes, opérette animalière, a spectacle from ...
Impronta, in central Guadalajara, Mexico, is the best the gods have ever done: it’s a print shop–publishing house–coffee shop ...
We are nearing the end of our stay in Mexico City’s San Angel neighbourhood, and it’s taken me almost two weeks but I’ve ...
It’s not that I didn’t know that Lisa spoke Spanish, but it’s another thing entirely to listen to her speak Spanish to a taxi driver for an hour, wending through Mexico City traffic: like waking up ...
Looptail g. Just down the street from our temporary house in Mexico City. Books about food. What’s not to love about Librería Gallina de Guinea! On the weekend they played host to Feria del libro ...
The air compressors at Charlottetown-area gas stations are a dreadful bunch: many of the tire pressure gauges are faulty (or missing), those that charge money for air—a violation of all that is holy, ...
Our Dutch friends, printers Martijn van der Blom and Roy Scholten, have launched a fundraising campaign for a book about printing with LEGO, The Hilversum Method: In 2023 we made our first book, ...
One of the standard questions they ask at the admitting desk at Queen Elizabeth Hospital here in Charlottetown is “have you had any fall in the last three months?” Ever since I broke my arm in July, I ...
Earlier this year, we prepared a guide for our Home Exchange guests that, among other things, points them to shops and restaurants in the area that we like. When I looked the new address up, and found ...
Lauren Collins, in an essay about Uniqlo in The New Yorker: Uniqlo is the universal donor of fashion, intended to go with any life style or aesthetic. A perfect sentence.