My friend Matt mandated I find and try the breakfast at Maria’s Market café. He claims the best in London. I woke up early on a Wed and found my way down to the Borough Market. On Thurs, Fri and Sat it is a bustling produce, meat and flower mélange where purveyors and customers buy and sell the...
As the wheels of my plane from Copenhagen squeaked the tarmac I pulled out the SAS in flight magazine from the seat back in front of me. Tray table properly stowed of course. I flipped quickly through the glossy and stuck on a restaurant review for a place called St. Johns. An interview with the...
Yahoo! sponsored the twenty20 world cup of cricket. I am not going to get into how the game is played and what the difference is between regular cricket and twenty20. Learn on your own. But I will get into the snacks. My friend and fellow Yahoo!, Andrew, invited me to a quarter final match between...
I was looking for a quick hit one day in London and every pub and restaurant was either no longer serving or not yet serving. I walked past an Italian restaurant that had a small sandwich shop next to it. I walked a few blocks more before deciding to return and order a salami and cheese on a roll. ...
Hungover from the night party the night before I hung with Henrik at the shop. In between customers we sat in the sun as still as possible, sipping water and rehashing the events of the evening. We got a bit hungry and he mentioned we could order the best pizza in Copenhagen. I quickly agreed and I...
On the same day I met Stig and his Olives I took the Copenhagen guys out for dinner. Their choice of course. Henrik took us over to a restaurant/bar that lived in a converted laundromat space. As soon as we walked in Henrik ordered up three plates and some beers. When the meal came it looked...
After the ship I hung in Copenhagen for a few days to meet up with my CPH yBike riders, Henrik and Mikael. Henrik runs a bike rental shop in town and the three of spent an afternoon doing a few interviews for my Yahoo! Purple Pedals Project (when they are done I will link to them from here). We had...
I didn’t think you would want to marinate a nut but I was wrong. As an accoutrement to my dessert plate this nut not only opened my palette but my imagination. Let me back up a quick sec. I was looking for a quiet meal in Copenhagen after having spent 10 days on the ship with Ant. This giant...
Vapiano is a “fast food” Italian joint that I discovered three years ago while living in Berlin. Graciously called The Vap, Jen and I frequented the establishment at least 5 times a week during our Berlin days. The last port of call on the ship was to the small town of Kiel Germany. To...
Our next dinner will be on July 25th. This time we are letting you influence what movie we roll. In choosing these three contenders we thought about summer, fun and pure hilarity. Not only did we dig deep to the roots of our childhood summers but we pulled three of the funniest movies from the...
I had one thing in mind when I jumped off the ship in Stockholm and that was to find some cool Swedish designs. Ant and I managed to succeed and have time for some old city, quick grub and a vodka experience that is unprecedented. Music by Movits! a jazzy hip-hop Swedish group. ...
Dad’s will be dad’s. To know mine is to have a teacher and a comedian at the ready at all times. Most times we are laughing at him but he seems to revel in that. Come Father’s day he is never short on requests for what he wants. So, to appease and repay him for all the lessons and...
Ant and I took Helsinki by storm as much as the Finnish would allow. This super chill city lead us to find some great music shops, a beautiful fruit and fish market and some slow cooked friends of the allusive Santa Claus. Music by Niko and Tapsa, a hip-hop jazz duo from Finland. Here is the...
Our second dinner on the deck was a ton of fun. Sorry it took a while to get this post up. We want to, again, thank all our guests for making the evening super special. This Reel Tasty Brooklyn dinner featured Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window paired with some wonderful dishes. For those...
Definitely day two now. Ant and I headed for an ancient fort and then tracked down some Georgian food. The day ended with a harrowing trip back to the ship. The lack of English and the introduction of a new port has confused the tourist/taxi driver communication and almost kept us in St. Pete...
A bloody church, an impromptu Russian girl party and a Hookah kept Tony, Kelsey and I going when our bodies and minds were conflicted on exactly what time it was. Russia kept us on our toes as we continued to explore the in’s and out’s of St. Petersburg. ...
