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Vitoria-Gasteiz is the second largest city in the Basque Country and also its administrative capital. It's located between the coastal cities of Bilbao and San Sebastian but 30 miles inland, so a long drive away. Travellers thus...
I spent the weekend with my husband at LFG Con, a board game and tabletop RPG convention which was started in 2025 by three friendly-local-game-store owners. It was hosted at a hotel across from the Burbank airport, but we made a...
As we close in on the last couple weeks of the open reading period, I am enjoying wading into the submissions pool and have even started accepting some titles for the first couple months of the 2026-27 season (and amazingly am somewhat...
It is common for promotional pamphlets aimed at children to contain a themed variant of snakes and ladders. This is the “game” where the players toss a die, move as many places as the die says, and then some spots on the board have an...
SEVILLE is not a discreet city. The city hits you with its intense heat, the scent of orange blossoms, and the sound of flamenco guitars emanating from every other door. [The ‘old town’ of] Spain’s fourth-largest city is compact enough...
Heatwave No. 5. A funeral. Storage Battery installed. Longtown Show. Project Fill Skip. A sunny afternoon at Longtown & District Show Gym on Tuesday then into Hereford for a hot, hot shop at Tesco’s and Lidl. And to pop into Belmont...
If you have attended the Setouchi Triennale before, or simply visited Naoshima, there is a good chance that you arrived on the shores of the Seto Inland Sea via Uno Station in Tamano City.If so, you will probably be familiar with Esther...
[!NOTE] This was supposed to be one post, but it grew so long that I had to split it up. Here are/will be the others. The Jewish Museum’s exhibition that I discussed in my previous post took me around an hour to get through. With plenty...
Exciting news here at casa secretGeek. You're excited, Mrs secretGeek is excited, the little secretGeek kids are excited too. For the first time in a long time, I've released a new game! I've put a free demo online at...
Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends in Christ, There was once a boy, not much older than fourteen, who wandered the dusty back roads near a small farming town at the turn of the...
In reply to daringfireball.netJohn Gruber writes about the difficult birth of Siri AI: Last winter Apple sent an entire team, including engineers, to Brussels to present a proposal for the TSA (maybe that’s another acronym that needs...
Some mornings just call for a hearty, comforting skillet of potatoes — the kind that brown beautifully, smell amazing, and make you feel like you’re starting the day on the right foot. This small‑batch Potatoes O’Brien is perfect for one...
It’s a given, isn’t it, that pubs are a good thing and deserve protection? Well, it turns out that many people disagree. At the weekend the UK Government announced new planning rules that make it harder to turn pubs into homes or...
The old Luggage Store Gallery on Market Street in San Francisco is long gone, and along with it the great hallway entrance that was festooned with graffiti. I walked up and, later, down that staircase many times to attend concerts. I...