Category: places

Populus Coffee: Berlin / Neukölln

Post author By Nikki
Post date May 30, 2019
Categories In Berlin Study Abroad, Blog Thing, Food and Drink, places, remembering, travel, Writing
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Of all the coffee spots I went to during my month in Berlin, Populus Coffee was my favorite, zweifellos. They were one of the cafes on the list that I’d put together, weeks before I was even set to head to Berlin, and they did not disappoint. Since this trip was part of a study abroad […]

Wieder zusammen

Post author By Nikki
Post date May 19, 2019
Categories In Blog Thing, places, Polyglot and Linguaphile, travel, understanding languages, Writing
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Husband has been asked to be on the jury of the International Sound Awards in Hamburg, Germany—he’s kind of a big deal in the sound design world. Of course I’m going to tag along. As I’ve been moving into translation and localization, I’ve been trying to make strategic decisions about which languages I should focus […]

Guernica / Gernika / Gernika-Lumo

Post author By Nikki
Post date January 12, 2019
Categories In Blog Thing, learning, living, looking / seeing, places, remembering, Writing

After ten years of plotting and planning, I finally got my Guernica tattoo. It’s placed on my left forearm, surrounding my ancient (and very first) Keith Haring tattoo. I’ve declared this arm my “art” arm, as I plan on adding to it with the likes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, more Picasso, Alphonse Mucha, etc. […]

Stonehenge!

Post author By Nikki
Post date November 27, 2018
Categories In Blog Thing, Featured, looking / seeing, places, Writing
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There is a full scale replica of the Stonehenge right here in Washington State. I found out about it several years ago and have been dying to see it. This past holiday weekend, we finally drove out to Goldendale to check it out. It was a three and a half hour drive from Seattle and […]

on the water

Post author By Nikki
Post date August 15, 2018
Categories In Blog Thing, living, looking / seeing, places, Seattle, Writing
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A small handful of pictures from yesterday. Husband and I went on a boat ride for our *9th wedding anniversary and then grabbed The Kid to wander around Foster Island. (*That’s 10.5 years together, total, including an 8 year old son, if you’re counting!) You can see more “Summer in Seattle” photos here. Not really […]

Une Voiture / aka “save gas, pedal your ass”

Post author By Nikki
Post date July 19, 2018
Categories In Best Of, Blog Thing, Kids and Homeschool, living, places, Seattle, Writing
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We are about to attempt a grand experiment. We are selling one of our cars, “my” car, and becoming a one-car family. It’s absurd to think of this as a big deal or as an experiment and yet, here we are. Living in the suburbs of America, of Seattle, it is sort of an experiment—especially […]

die Sehnsucht

Post author By Nikki
Post date June 17, 2018
Categories In Blog Thing, Food and Drink, listening / reading / watching, places, Polyglot and Linguaphile, Writing
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As I wrote earlier, Husband and I had decided to go to Panama in the Fall. I really felt drawn to going somewhere where I could use French or Spanish and we’d love to try somewhere new. We were set. Then several weeks ago, someone wrote me asking if a friend of theirs could email […]

voyageurs / viajeros / travelers

Post author By Nikki
Post date April 30, 2018
Categories In Blog Thing, learning, places, Polyglot and Linguaphile
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¡Hemos estado viajando mucho, recientemente! El mayo pasado, estuve en Berlin durante un mes, la navidad pasada viajamos al País Vasco (en Francia y España), viajamos a Santa Barbara un mes después País Vasco, y fuimos a Palm Springs / Joshua Tree in el marzo pasado. We’ve traveled a lot recently! Last May, I was […]

more scenes from the desert

Post author By Nikki
Post date April 8, 2018
Categories In Blog Thing, Kids and Homeschool, looking / seeing, places, Writing
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You definitely get to see things from a whole new perspective when you return to sites seen with kids. The Nugget loved climbing and all the wild rock formations (Skull Rock!) and the giant cacti. We also stopped to see the Cabazon Dinosaurs which, I didn’t find out until after is actually part of a […]

The Desert, Coachella Valley: Salton Sea, Slab City / East Jesus / Salvation Mountain

Post author By Nikki
Post date April 5, 2018
Categories In Blog Thing, looking / seeing, places, Polyglot and Linguaphile, Writing
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Over my Spring Break, the family and I went to Palm Springs. Husband and I had been there before – pre marriage, pre kid – and had good memories of Joshua Tree and hotels with hot springs. Having returned a decade later, I have to say that Palm Springs itself is underwhelming (though staying at […]

squishy things in your mouth

Post author By Nikki
Post date September 30, 2006
Categories In Food and Drink, memoir/creative nonfiction, places, travel, Writing
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While fighting the urge to strangle my friend in Amsterdam, I did also manage to have a few moments of fun. By the time that I ditched her (because she was, predictably, late meeting me during the one hour break I got from her) and ran back to the hotel for some quiet, I’d had […]