I am back to Toronto and its surroundings for a few days now and I still feel like a stranger in the city. I am enjoying my time here after four months of absence but not having our old place downtown makes me feel disconnected from the Toronto I am used to. It is amazing […]

Siempre que llega la Navidad y el fin de año pienso en los turrones españoles. En Cuba, el turrón de Jijona, Alicante y de yema tostada son una gran tradición navideña que ni las escaseces han logrado eliminar. Muchas tradiciones se han perdido pero la del turrón se mantiene, a pesar de no ser barato […]

It is Christmas Day and first day back in Canada! We will be visiting Toronto for the next three weeks and the city welcomed us with no snow and 2 degrees. Thank you, T-dot! 😉 I was afraid of a snow storm or -18 degrees, like when I moved to Canada in December 2005. Today […]

Mount Davidson is San Francisco’s natural highest point. If you can drive there and park your car in the street it will take you only five minutes to get to the top. There is a short trail that takes you up to a quiet view of the city and the ocean. It seemed to me […]

In the last week we have been to Google offices twice. We have a friend who works at the San Francisco office and invited us for lunch and to take a quick tour of the building areas that can be accessed. Then, yesterday we went to Mountain View to spend the day since our friend […]

Here is the story of what we think was a very weird tedious scam. Last night we were trying to find parking around our neighbourhood. It is around 8:30 pm on a Saturday night. We usually have a lot of “fun” searching for a spot in the NOPA so we were happy to see a […]

I have spent the last two days going around the Sunset district in SF and found myself loving this area more and more by the minute. One of my friends moved to the center of this neighbourhood a couple of weeks ago and we were exploring the little stores and food places on Thursday and […]

I have not had much time in the past few days to write about out Seattle trip. We came back yesterday after an amazing stay, even though the temperatures were low and the days were gray. The weather was still nicer than in Toronto at this time of the year so we were happily going […]