Whoa. Whoa. It’s the end of May and I’m not really sure how that happened. Well, no. That’s a big fat lie. I spent practically all of April in Senegal thanks to everyone’s favorite volcano (Iceland, I’m lookin’ at you). Originally, I was only supposed to visit friends and travel around for the first two weeks, but then geology struck. Eventually the Belgian Air Force became involved and flew me, along with hundreds of other stranded Belgians, back to Brussels. Insane as I am, I promptly hopped on a train to meet my students and boss in Strasbourg, a mere three hours after landing and operating on little sleep. Instead of a weekend full of vineyard hopping, pretzel eating, and roman ruin touring with everyone, I found myself on a broken train at midnight, stranded in Luxembourg and with no way back to Brussels or to Strasbourg. I quickly came to the realization that I had hit my travel quota and extinguished all of my good travel juju.
And on top of all of this, it’s been a solid two months since I’ve really stepped foot inside of my kitchen. So, instead of going into the overwhelming amount of crazy life details and my Senegalese experience, I’ll woo you with pictures from all of my recent travels!
1.) Inside Entre Deux, a church-turned-bookstore in Maastricht, the Netherlands 2.) Reading in Entre Deux 3.) Maastricht 4.) Vintage shopping in Maastricht 5.) Fruit from a baobab tree in Dakar, Senegal 6.) Spices in a fresh market in Dakar, Senegal 7. ) Cracking freshly roasted cashews open
3:39 pm on May 26th, 2010
That church is gorgeous. And it’s a bookstore!? Heavens. In Cincinnati, the best we can do with our old churches is turn them into Urban Outfitters.
Also, geology called. She says she’s sorry and wants to meet for coffee sometime, but understands if it’s too early to be friends again.