... until your friends visit! Well anyways when I was there I had a few thoughts go through my mind as I ... stopped by a quiet spot in Madrid's Retiro Park and recorded my thoughts. Short and sweet...

Yesterday afternoon, Gabriella finally arrived home to Spain after a month and a half in the USA. It’s obviously great to have her here in our new home, not only because I missed her, but also because we can finally have some great meals together! However, because we were both ...

As you all are aware, our posts as of late have been dodgy at best. Between my parents being in town(and traveling about Catalunya, note the photo), our house needing a lot of work and the weather being incredible, we have had little time to actually put our fingers to ...

While reading an article on Decanter, I learned that I could become a “certified” cork expert if I visited RealcorkUSA.com. This announcement begged the question “Is this for real?” But sure enough, I went to their URL and learned that if I pass an incredibly long and biased list of ...

Greetings from the balmy state of Chicago where the cicadas are chirping louder than the bustling traffic of Madrid. Some of you may be aware of this already, but I have been wrapping up some paperwork in the States, while taking some extra time to visit friends, family and of ...

Just a quick note to mention one of my favorite times of the year has arrived! The grapes are starting to ripen, and while I’m sure some vineyards already have their harvest underway if not finished, Catalunya has just begun to start theirs. Consequently, one of my favorite treats during ...

As you all know by now, we have a new home in Terrassa, Catalunya, a small city right near Barcelona and full of Catalan culture. I’ve been walking around a lot since I arrived here to get my bearings and to figure out where the mass amount of windy small ...

Here’s a quick non wine related post. One of the joys of running a website(s) is looking at the search results. Because most of us ‘webmasters’ check our stats incessantly, our ‘compulsive’ behavior is sometimes rewarded with little tidbits of humor and insight into the human mind. As a ‘webmaster’, ...

As mentioned in our first post, we have several story ideas that we feel are both interesting and poignant based not only on what we’ve read on the web, but also on what we feel you will appreciate. However, to make this work effectively, we need to get the information ...

Last night we had an emergency at our house. Dinner was about to be served and all we were out of wine! No don’t worry there was wine in the house, but we were out of wine to “drink”, meaning dinner was not worthy this night of the few “special” ...