A Tale of Two Towers in Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
In the bustling quarter of Belém, in Lisbon, Portugal, two towers; one a modern monument and one an ancient fortress, offer a view of the city and its maritime history that should not be missed.
New Specs
It took almost three weeks (so much for 1 hour service) but I’m finally wearing my new glasses. This is the first time I’ve ever splurged on frames (Yay overpriced Italian designers), but I figure I wore my last ones for 5 years so they owe me nothing. So I’m sitting here feeling just a...
La Benjamine Gastronomic Week Photos
It took me longer than I expected, but the photos from our Gastronomic Week are finally done. You can see Andrew and I eating, drinking and cooking at La Benjamine. There was even a fair bit of dancing being done on New Year’s Eve (could have had something to do with the wine…) You can...
Birthday Week Celebrations
Whew, what a birthday week that was! In fact, things are pretty hectic in general in Cornford-Matheson land but I’m getting ahead of myself. First the birthday celebrations… So on Wednesday I turned 31… I’m now officially “in my 30s.” Yuck. Anyway, Kara asked if I would like to spend the day in the city with her. Not sitting...
Farewell Expatica
After 85 blog posts and almost three years of life as an Expat in Belgium, I am resigning my post as Expatica’s Belgian Blogger. As I reflect back on my early blog entries, I can’t help but marvel at how much has changed in my life over the past three years. When I first arrived in Belgium, I...
Buckingham First Day Cover
I have a huge and very exciting announcement to make. One of my images is being used on a first day cover called Celebrating Northern Ireland. I was contacted back in November by the lovely people of Buckingham Covers. They asked if they could use one of my images of the Giant’s Causeway for a...
Paris, Amsterdam and Internal Organs
Was that a truck that just ran me over…? No, it was just my gastro-intestinal system. Sorry I’ve been off-line for the past little while. No, I didn’t get kidnapped in Paris and although I wanted to, I didn’t run off to Croatia with Kate and her friends. Wednesday evening after they left I got knocked down by the...
Girls, Girls, Girls
Andrew is drowning in hair product… His sister and her two friends arrived safely Monday night and the four of us are ganging up on him. Poor boy, he fled to Sweden today to escape all of the estrogen. Just wait until we hit Amsterdam on the weekend… Yesterday we raided Antwerp with Kara and...
Life, The Universe and Everything Else.
My friend Sue always says that the universe gives you what you need (not necessarily what you want) when you need it. I’ve always believed this, even though I never articulated it as well as she does. A wise woman is Sue. Today I got what I needed. I’ll get to what that was in a second, but first,...