This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 This morning Colin woke up early to unbolt the giant wooden front door to “our” shop. It turns out, our apartment is a traditional Chinese shop – with the store in the front room, and the living quarters upstairs. If a customer walked all the…
View MoreThis post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was mostly consumed with getting from the Perhentians to Penang. We got up early to catch the ferry, the took a bus to the Kota Bharu airport. That put us at the airport too early for our flight, so we paid ($3/each!) to get…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 This morning was mostly a repeat of yesterday – up early, quick breakfast, then going our separate ways for a bit. After grabbing an extra cup of coffee, I decided to take my Kindle down the shore a ways. Now, I’m a pretty non-confrontational guy…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Day three on the island. Walls are closing in. Everything’s gone gray. You think you know? You don’t. Wait no, different island. On this one, we got up early so Kat could prep for her dive. Breakfast was roti canai at our hotel (resort? Where’s…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was day one of SCUBA for Kat, which meant a “refresher dive” to get checked out by the instructor. We had breakfast (roti canai and naan) and then went our separate ways. As an aside, the restaurant uses appropriately large coffee mugs. While Kat…
View MoreThis post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was mostly about travel, from Kuala Lumpur to Perhentian Besar island on the northeast coast of Malaysia. We met back up with our Uber driver from yesterday for a lift to the airport, then took a quick flight to the other side of the…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was our day to explore Kuala Lumpur, before continuing on to the islands. We headed out from our hotel in the general direction of “Little India”. We stopped along the way for breakfast in a more traditional Malay neighborhood. After standing awkwardly outside of…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 I’m currently wearing pajamas. But they’re not my pajamas. They’re loaner pajamas. Such is the wonder of flying in the front row. Thanks to a generous donation of frequent flyer miles from Steve and Judy, we’re currently sitting in fancy-pants seats, wearing slippers, and sipping……
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Tomorrow morning, we’ll be heading to Malaysia on our honeymoon. This will be our first time in Southeast Asia together, and we’re pretty excited to eat, explore, and drip with scooter exhaust scented sweat. This is the traditional “where we’re going and what we’re doing…
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This post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 This morning, we had two missions. Mission the first: good churros with chocolate. Mission accomplished, thanks the helpful mini-guide that Sandra gave us yesterday. We took the metro to Xurreria Trebol and ate a healthy breakfast of fried things dipped in liquid chocolate. Mission number…
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This post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 Up until today, we’ve been living pretty healthy lives in Barcelona. Plenty of walking, and only eating small tapas and sane amounts of pastry. Clearly, this situation could not be allowed to stand. Enter the Culinary Backstreets Made By The Mediterranean tour. We met our…
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This post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 Catching up a bit – haven’t blogged the last two days, as they’ve been work days for both of us. I spent the time in sessions at the conference, and Kat’s been working out of the apartment. The conference was fascinating, though I don’t bore…
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This post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 First things first, it’s really hot in Barcelona in July. Like, high 90s and totally still. We began the day early, before it was too sweltering, sitting on our terrace watching the Swifts diving around for breakfast. Then, it was off to the train station…
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This post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 A pleasantly uneventful travel day brought us from Minneapolis to Amsterdam (on a practically empty plane) and then on to Barcelona. Aside from a small hiccup when the airport ATM ate my card and refused to return it, things were perfect. We made it to…
View MoreThis post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 As has seemed to happen fairly regularly in recent years, we’re celebrating the fourth of July with a trip to Europe. Spain actually, and Barcelona specifically. This isn’t strictly a “fun” trip – I’ll be presenting at Edulearn 2015, and I’m looking forward to my…
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This post is part of a series called Portugal 2015 Our last day in Portugal! We managed to pack a lot in, but there was a lot we didn’t have time for. Next time! After waking up, it seemed prudent to attempt to extract our car from the garage. Had it turned into a faff,…
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This post is part of a series called Portugal 2015 After a late night of coughing (wooo! Wild-And-Crazy in Europe!!), we slept in a bit. Around ten, we met up with our guide for the day, Marta. The plan was to do a “gastronomy” tour in the morning, and a history tour in the afternoon….
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This post is part of a series called Portugal 2015 The goals for today were manyfold. First: See the northern parts of Portugal. Next, eat delicious cheese. Ok, so maybe the goals were more like twofold. In any case, we succeeded. Based on a very thin thread of evidence, we picked as our goal the…
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