The Lederman Kitchen

Hola desde Madrid.  Actually, hello from San Francisco...  Michelle and I are slowly but surely catching up on the blog, one trip at a time.  We have to go all the way back to August 2013 for our weekend to Madrid.   Why did we go to Madrid?  Why not?  Who doesn't like warm weather when you're stuck in an Irish summer (albeit the best Irish summer in 18 years )?  Who doesn't love tapas crawls?  Who doesn't love exploring a major European city for a few days?  Who doesn't love Spain?! This was my third trip to Spain since we moved to Dublin and our second together.  In fact our first trip outside of Dublin was to Barcelona .  I fell in love immediately.  After an amazing weekend in San Sebastian earlier in the year I was itching to go back.    Michelle in front of the Royal Palace We flew in bright and early from Dublin and hit the town to see the sights.  First stop (after c...

Have I ever told you the story of how I became Scottish one day at work?  I find the Scottish accent one of the more difficult ones to understand, especially when we first moved over to Dublin.  When I started at LinkedIn, I took a call with a prospect in Scotland.  I wasn't able to get through to the person I was hoping for, so I left a message, and it went something like this: Prospect: "Can I take your name, please?" Me: "Sure, can you let him know Michelle called." Prospect: "And what's your sur name?" (last name) Me: "Oh, Lederman" Prospect: as he is writing, "Michelle O'Lederman, sure I'll let him know you called" And just like that, I was Scottish. We always knew we wanted to check out Scotland, but it was hard to justify a summer weekend away to Scotland since it would be similar weather to what we had in Dublin.  Finally, in late July, we found a perfect weekend before we both had work trips...