http://www.sharonomink.com Photos, Musings, and Reflections from The Other Down Under Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:46:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or at least it did today and yesterday. It's not an auspicious beginning for the New Year, but with the cold temps out here in California and all the holiday running around, I suppose it isn't surprising that some bug has latched onto me. Anyway - the MucinexD is ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2009/01/06/goals-from-the-infirmary/ We had an early wake up call Friday (well, just my iPhone alarm) to catch the _ AM TGV to Lyon. I promised Rich un café before the Metro, but the café on our corner was still closed. We did find the Le Horizon was open by the time we ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2008/06/23/living-it-up-in-lyon/ Thursday was all about the food…the markets, the culinary stores, and some eating and drinking of our own. On our way to the Metro, we stopped at a boulangerie and I grabbed my personal favorite breakfast food - pain au raisin. There was an older guy still making baguettes ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2008/06/21/cuisine-et-cinema/ We couldn't get a reservation at the restaurant I had chosen for dinner, so during lunch Rich picked this restaurant from his Lonely Planet guide and Molly approved. They had space at 9pm and off we went after a good rest on and some music shopping on the Champs. It's ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2008/06/19/cuillere/ Bread. It was time. Rather than head to the internet cafe to start the day and prend le petit dejeuner after, we started out at the world's best bread bakery, Poilane. We bought a few apple tarts to go, then headed to the little cafe next door, Cuisine de Bar. ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2008/06/18/impressionable/ Didn't quite have a plan, so we started at Angelina, home of the world's very best hot chocolate. It's almost like drinking a rich chocolate pudding before it cools. Yummy. We knew it was supposed to be a nice day, so wanted to be outside and decided we'd head to ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2008/06/18/from-hot-chocolate-to-hot-sauce/ OK, folks. Still no photos. Was going to post some this AM and discovered I don't have the cable for getting them off the Canon. The cable for my snapshot camera doesn't work, so I'll have to go buy one somewhere. Despite my best attempts at pre-trip list-making for packing, ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2008/06/17/shopping-and-sipping/ Going to try to do this blog thing this week. Not confident I'll be any better than I've generally been my last few trips though. And I have this bigger challenge...a French keyboard, which is definitely slowing me down. So...I'm here in Paris for the first time in a decade. Molly ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2008/06/16/hunting-and-pecking-in-paris/ So...it's my first time south of the border. I'm about to venture out of the comfort of the W Hotel and explore the city a bit. I'm here for a business meeting this evening, but since work has been so busy, I'm hoping to get in a little sightseeing and ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2007/12/21/greetings-from-mexico-city/ Many of you know of the Sunday Night Dinners. When I wasn't working (and suddenly had a life) this summer, we were doing them all the time. Now it's down to about once a month, but has become a team event and sort of a tradition at my house. Kinda ... http://www.sharonomink.com/2007/01/25/sunday-night-dinner-january-21-2007/