This column appeared in yesterday’s travel section of the San Francisco Chronicle. “What kind of turkey?” the butcher at the pouliere, the Dutch version of a poultry shop, inquired. “Uh, there are different kinds? Just a regular ol’ turkey,” I said, miffed that there existed an entire avian world of which I clearly knew nothing. “What [...]
Photo Friday: Zaanse Schans, Netherlands
February 12, 2010 By 14 Comments
Back in the very beginning days of Scott + Kristin—in 2005, before there hardly was such a thing—we lived in Holland. I shared a bed with my best friend Megan in the attic of some horrid Surinamese woman’s home in Utrecht (I really must tell you that story one day); Scott lived a half an [...]
Photo Friday: Utrecht, Netherlands
April 24, 2009 By 22 Comments
In 2005, I left New York to move to Utrecht, Netherlands. I went with just a suitcase, pack, laptop and my best friend Megan. It was there that I met SVV on my second day. This was our neighborhood: Megan and I lived in the attic of a 72-year-old Surinamese bitch’s palatial pad, though she [...]
