To celebrate the ninth anniversary of meeting my curious, intelligent, sophisticated, beautiful, hilarious, and inventive wife, we decided to have dinner at Dans Le Noir, Barcelona. It was certainly a unique experience.
I got to play poker in Spanish. It was a strange experience for several reasons. First, they don’t use the same words for the ranks of the cards. I didn’t learn them all, but they call “two-pair” “doubles.” It’s also interesting to notice some of the cultural differences for the dealers. It could…
Okay, I know I’ll be made fun of for this, but that’s okay. I really liked my visit to the mall in Barcelona. It is at the north eastern end of a major road in Barcelona called Diagonal. In many ways it is very much like malls in the USA. There are shops and candy stores, a…
So, for those of you who didn’t notice the not-so subtle change in our itinerary, we did not go first to South America, but rather to Barcelona. The main contributing factor to this decision was that we didn’t want to go all the way down to the southern reaches of South…