Naples is widely-accepted as the home of pizza, which was purportedly invented here. Walk down any random street, and you will see at least one pizzeria. Even small cafes or bars have display cases with small margherita pizzas going for 1€. I can imagine every tourist eats at least one pizza during their time in Naples. Us? We ate four pizzas ( Read more... )

After much anticipation all around (this has taught me not to tell Bao about exciting events until like, the day before, or endure 'is it now? it's sooooo long!' 475762 times an hour), S and E finally arrived in Geneva last Friday morning. S is one of my oldest friends and we have seen each other at our worsts and hopefully, our bests. E is her ten ( Read more... )

We had a nice getaway in Lisbon in the first week of January, considering that the rainclouds followed us there, and that Bao was determined to be on her most challenging behaviour. The food, the interesting walks, the views, and the friendly people more than made up for it ( Read more... )

Writing about our half-term trip to London made me realise that I didn't write about that other trip to London, the one I did last month. Basically, a 48-hour-long whirlwind in the city with my friend C. She was in town for some work and I hadn't seen her since August in Singapore and this was too good an opportunity to miss. J agreed to take the ( Read more... )

We got back from London on Sunday night. I think the children both properly enjoyed this trip and it was worth it, really, taking them both to the Big Smoke even though I generally don't like taking children to crowded cities. J and I didn't have much of an agenda beyond eating well, and I didn't do much shopping at all. We just took it easy and ( Read more... )

Our London trip turned out better than I expected (that's me, the travel pessimist, hi!), but that's because I was IMMENSELY wary of mixing Bao and large cities after our disastrous trip to Paris more than a year ago, when she was about seventeen months old. I never wrote about that trip precisely because it was such a non-trip - all my energies ( Read more... )

As the weather forecast predicted, the first snow came down today. Nothing much and certainly not enough to stick, but it was nice to see nonetheless and Bao was pressed up against the window, enchanted. She was not so happy after that when she asked to put on her snowsuit and mittens to go out and play in the snow, and when I showed her that the ( Read more... )

Final post (for now) about dining out as a family here in Geneva. This post is all about the non-Asian restaurants that we have tried and enjoyed.

Inglewood (burgers ( Read more... )

After yesterday's long-winded post on dining out with the children, today I'm finally writing about some of the restaurants we have tried here in Geneva, more for my own records than anything. The usual disclaimers that come with any restaurant-related post apply: these are places that our family eats at, and with the nature of our children, ( Read more... )

In our household, the weekend means that the kitchen is mostly closed and I take a break. All our weekday meals are basically cooked by yours truly and the routine (and meal options) can get a little repetitive, especially when I am busy, sick or feeling uninspired. Now that the children are able to tolerate staying up past their bedtime better, ( Read more... )