The Flight Attendant Is Out to Get Me

I am now 17 hours into this trip, and we still haven’t landed in Tokyo. We connect from there to an 8-hour flight on ANA that will take us to Jakarta. This flight is on United, which is a new thing for me. Usually I fly Delta or one of their partners, but this really […]

The Long Introductory Post Without Pictures

Yes, dear readers, as promised, I am back! Much like cold sores and shingles, Butterblogger has returned for one last expedition of 2014, and this one has the potential to be a train wreck, so you definitely won’t want to look away! What destination could evoke such a possibility? Well, many come to mind, but […]

A New Hope

As I write this I’m somewhere in the air between Paris CDG and Minneapolis. Yup – my route home is MAD-CDG-MSP-FNT. I booked it with some trepidation, because the layover in Paris was a paltry 1 hour 25 minutes. In a normal airport that would be more than enough time, but Paris is not a […]

Partings

We started the morning with a trip to the Picasso Museum. Just like the Sagrada Familia, we got there first thing after opening, and in both cases this was a very wise decision. Both opened at 9 am, which is earlier than most of Spain even considers waking up. This meant there weren’t many visitors […]

A Day of Subtlety

Today was all about being subtle. By which I mean, today was about not being subtle at all, but instead being entirely over the top. It was about a master pushing his art to the furthest extreme. It was about art nouveau, modernism, avoiding straight lines, breaking rules and making new rules. It was a […]

Where Pork is a Vegetable

I woke this morning and left the hotel early. I wanted a little better orientation to town and so headed toward the Gothic quarter. I stopped along the way and bought a croissant. I thought it had a fruit filling – I was wrong, though; it was filled with ham. Come to think of it, […]