The next day was a day of leisure – shopping, the national museum, wandering through downtown Reykjavik and just having a wonderful day as our trip started to wind down. Because of Edna’s age, 83 1/2, I built in extra ‘relaxation days’ which Cathy and I seldom take but it was important to give Edna […]
Read MoreIn 2021, when Cathy and I made our first ‘Pandemic Escape’ back to Iceland, I sent pictures to my then 82-year-old aunt, Edna. Her mother is our grandmother, so she too is Icelandic. I wanted to share with Edna some of our favorite places in Iceland and give her the feeling of ‘home’ like Cathy […]
Read More2023 is my 4th trip to Iceland. This time my son Barrett is my travel partner. We were lucky that we found a Delta flight which had a layover at JFK and instead of taking the usual 3 days, it only took two. We landed at Reykjavik airport at 9 am and had a private […]
Read MoreOur last stop before heading to the USA is at the Blue Lagoon. It’s always nice to have a hot soak in the water and it’s also nice to get our last Michelin dinner in Iceland. There are three Michelin restaurants in Iceland and Barrett and I have been lucky enough to enjoy all three! […]
Read MoreOpened in 2009, Dill was the first restaurant in Iceland to receive a Michelin star. Dill originally was a small eight seat restaurant that couldn’t keep up with demand so the owner and founding Chef Gunnar Gislasson moved it to Laugavegur street in Reykjavik and enlarged his seating to accommodate more guests. It is a […]
Read MoreIt’s our last day in Prague as the end of our trip is tomorrow. We decided to spend the day relaxing, wandering around taking pictures, visit the Powder Gate Tower, Vysehrad fortress, shimmying down the narrowest street in Prague, doing a little Bohemian crystal shopping, and our final Michelin dinner at V zatisi. One of […]
Read MoreSo the Michelin reviewers need to go back and revisit this one. At this time, while the food was good, service was not worthy of a Michelin *. The plus sides were that the restaurant was clean and beautiful, the dishes were plated beautifully and the food was excellent. The 2nd table that arrived specifically […]
Read MoreAnother tasting menu and also an option of non-alcoholic pairings. As has become or norm, we usually have one glass of wine with our main course as well. Our juice pairings included carrot, leek, walnut, beetroot, and grape. The only one we weren’t crazy about was the grape. But, overall, the meal was lovely with […]
Read MoreDay 3 finds us going wine tasting and visiting the National Museum. My research showed there the National Museum owned some Impressionist paintings and that was all it took for me to want to visit. The Museum isn’t big and it’s laid out differently, as in there isn’t a Baroque area, or Flemish room, or […]
Read MoreWhile we may have worn some tread off of our shoes the day before as we trekked around Prague, today was another busy day and more trekking. We decided to do a walking food tour with our guide Lucie. I’ve done food tours in other countries and always find it to be fun as you […]
Read MoreLeaving Budapest we had two options – drive or fly. It’s only 5 1/2 hours by car; so again it would take almost as much time to deal with airports, airlines, and luggage retrieval to fly, while if we drove we could see more countryside of Hungary and the bonus is that we could stop […]
Read MoreIt was going to be hard to beat our dinner at Essencia in Budapest, but our dinner at Babel was another 10 out of 10. We walked from our hotel using our gps to navigate and ended up on the wrong street in front of a dive bar. From there we stopped using google maps […]
Read MoreWhile almost all of the restaurants we ate in offered a non-alcoholic juice pairing, Field was one of only a few that provided a list of what our drinks were. There wasn’t a ‘miss’ on any of them. They paired great and we enjoyed the uniqueness of each one. Amuse Bouche is always fun and […]
Read MoreThe biggest decision about Prague was how will we fit in all the things I wanted to do in only 4 days! No grass growing under our feet, each day we took private tours, visited museums, ate at Michelin restaurants and enjoyed Charles Bridge once the weekend was over and all the visitors, apparently from […]
Read MoreThe walk from our hotel, The Augustine, to the restaurant was pretty easy except for the immense crowds that we did not expect! The Charles bridge was so packed with people that we didn’t really want to spend time on it before dinner. We opted to eat outside with a view of the Vitava River […]
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