![Buses painted blue, white, and yellow await commuters at the Memorial Bridge ferry terminal in Bangkok.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_8730-470x140.png)
We are in well charted territory, and we are in uncharted territory: Thailand. It’s our third time in the Siamese bustle, so at one level,…
![A Kettle of Makgeoli](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_1436-470x140.jpg)
While traveling, we expect the unexpected, adventure. While traveling we try not to expect generosity, though we often experience it. It is rare, though, that…
![The White Shiraz Monsoon Valley Wines](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IMG_4907-e1432035084703-470x140.jpg)
Perhaps you haven’t yet heard of ‘new latitude’ wines. These are vintages whose grapes are grown in places—usually tropical places—your French great-grandmother thought were good…
![The Skyline of Patna From Golghar](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_36561-e1429110147526-470x140.jpg)
Our train shudders to a stop in Patna Junction, the nervous hiss of air breaks reflecting my mood. Have I erred in planning an adventuresome…
![A line of octopi at Meze 2 on the quayside in Naxos, Greece.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Naxos_port_meze2_octopi-470x140.jpg)
After a few days they came to Naxos, the home of Ariadne and the white wine. And also the home of Anastasia Demetriades who claimed…
![A Ton of Tonics](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/spanish_tonic_brands4-470x140.jpg)
I love gin. I love gin and tonic. The Spanish love gin and tonic even more than I do. As a person raised where juniper trees…
![Queimada, the Cocktail that Fire and Witchcraft Made](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/queimada_dish_aflame-470x140.jpg)
My spouse loves fire. She lights our dinner table with candles (Back in the days when we had a house and a dinner table. And…
![One brand of ginginha.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/one_brand_ginginha-470x140.jpg)
You may not know it, but March 19 is Father’s Day in Portugal. We did not know it either, until we entered a patron-free one-woman…
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