I thought it might be worthwhile to update everyone on my musical life, which has kept me rather busy over the past few months. With the arrival of my French horn with Kyle’s dad last October (thanks again so much, Craig!!), I eagerly emailed as many amateur orchestras in the area as I could. I [...]

A long time ago, I posted a map showing the location of public drinking fountains in Venice. I was busy at the time and didn’t have any time to take it further. But now I’ve found a few minutes and have, as I promised I might, created a set of points for use in Google [...]

As promised, I’m devoting this post to a very pleasant experience we had recently: a trip to the city of Bristol, 80 or so miles to the southeast of Oxford. We went there to visit some friends of Ori’s, who had lived in Halifax for a few years before returning to their native UK. Knowing [...]