We got up early today to try out the Ritz hotel breakfast buffet and it definitely made getting up early worthwhile. I failed to get my camera fired up but I found a representative picture of the fruit area: It really did look like that! And then there were the breads and pastries, the full leg of Read more

We arrived in Madrid in the mid-afternoon of Saturday, 2/28/26. Neither of us were too tired since we did manage to sleep a bit on both legs of the journey eastward. We checked in at our Madrid lodgings, the Mandarin Oriental Ritz Hotel. That Mandarin Oriental part of the name is very recent Read more

I'm really not a chocolate person. That's not to say I don't like chocolate, I do. But chocolate people (you know who you are) have a totally different relationship with chocolate than I do. They not only love chocolate, they need it. They appreciate chocolate in a way I never will. Still, even Read more