This was on the label of a bag of seasonal vegetables I purchased the other day from Waitrose– our nearest grocery store. I love browsing the aisles of grocery stores in other countries. Food is probably my favorite gateway to culture and you can learn a lot from a grocery store. In France, for instance, the yogurt …

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It feels like it’s been a long week, even though we did lose a day. I’m remembering now that on the day we arrived, I told Sam that it was Monday and she corrected me, “No Mommy, it’s Sunday.” Alas, in the UK it was indeed Monday. So here’s what we’ve been up to since we arrived, bleary-eyed and wired, in Brighton: …

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This was Sam’s first observation about England. Not that it’s grey and cloudy nearly every day. Not that the driver’s seat is on the other side of the car, and certainly not the linguistic differences that amuse her parents so much (we live in a flat not an apartment; we take the lift not the elevator, etc.) No, the …

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