Monthly Archives: April 2018

April 2018. One of I think two Michelin starred restaurants on the island of Mallorca, this place in the middle of the city of Palma puts on a pretty high-class show. It’s on a narrow hard-to-access street in the old … Continue reading →

Peterson, Jordan. 12 Rules for Life. Random House, Toronto, 2018. NF; 4/18. This is an unusual book that has been successful but controversial. Peterson is originally a small-town Alberta Canadian but has also taught and researched at Harvard, and is … Continue reading →

April 2018. Following our pattern of driving away from our base camp to allegedly lovely towns and then seeking out Michelin-named restaurants for lunch, we chose this eatery in Valldemossa, which town we foolishly understood from a travel blogger was … Continue reading →

April 2018. Set in a small second-floor indoor room of a four-star hotel and a bigger pretty outdoor terrace in this typically picturesque small town, this place looked like it was going to be a classy find. Sadly the food … Continue reading →

April 2018. This place was called traditional by Michelin. It’s certainly been around for a long time, but calling it traditional seems kindly: there’s a “nasty, brutal, and short” character to some traditional things and that applies a wee bit … Continue reading →

  April 2018 It’s still rare although less so than 10 years ago to find an eating place that recognizes that diet has an important impact on life but none on traditional measures of health. Such places use the big … Continue reading →

Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment Now. Penguin Random House New York, 2018. NF;3/18. This is a long but mercifully easy-reading treatise on the Enlightenment values of reason, science, humanism, and progress. Pinker is an impressive renaissance-style academic (a psychologist but also a … Continue reading →

  April 2018. Some days nothing works. We were drawn to this deeply historic city because of its spectacular cathedral, originally created in around 1000 A.D. as a mosque but then taken over by Christians who somehow chose to build … Continue reading →

April 2018. In Seville for a week, we are limited by Robin sadly breaking her foot the day before we arrived, and being here unbeknownst during the week of Feria, a 150-year-old festival full of street celebration, drunkenness, special costumes, etc. … Continue reading →

April 2018. In Burgundy to taste and buy wine, we ventured south to visit a Cote Roti producer I knew and in the process couldn’t pass up having lunch in the reputed culinary capital of France: Lyon. Our choice certainly … Continue reading →