{"id":8010,"date":"2026-01-11T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:28:15","slug":"making-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8010","title":{"rendered":"Making pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Into the oven it goes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had big fun at the EU Ambassador\u2019s home on Friday night, along with our Ambassador and the ambassadors for the Canadians and Brits. He has a beautiful pizza oven and is a Neapolitan pizza expert. He brought in most of the ingredients from Italy and taught us how to form the crust and cook it in his beautiful oven. John did great! We enjoyed sitting outside and visiting over delicious pizza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saucy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our host Luca with John\u2019s finished product – delish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning we had the British ambassador and her husband over for a coffee roasting demo and breakfast. They\u2019re so nice – I\u2019m very sorry they are departing Guyana soon. We have enjoyed getting to know them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John roasting with Jane and Rob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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John in his happy place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Friday afternoon, John and I went to the Embassy\u2019s intramural cricket match. They borrowed a very nice field. It was a beautiful afternoon and the breeze from the ocean across the street made for pleasant temperatures. I enjoyed chatting with the new Peace Corps director who arrived this past week. The match was particularly fun because there was a good mix of American officers and Guyanese local staff – lots of cheering from the sidelines and plenty of smack-talk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a gorgeous day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cousin James was nice enough to have a long chat with me about investments this week; I really appreciated his insights and expertise as I dip my toes back into finances. I also had a fun chat early this morning with Lea (DC) and Rachel (Buenos Aires). It\u2019s always fun to catch up and laugh with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to my usual yoga, I\u2019m getting back in the habit of using my spin bike, too, now that we have our household goods. I love my morning walks outside, but rainy season has put a \u201cdamper\u201d on that for the last month or so and I need something to get my heart rate up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of getting my heart rate up, sadly I had a fender-bender yesterday! I had run downtown to a little grocery store and backed into a parked car as I was leaving. It didn\u2019t cause a lot of damage, but I had to call the embassy to come (standard procedure) so a police report can be filed, etc. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve had any accidents since 1983 when someone hit me! I was mortified and embarrassed. To top it off, the vehicle belonged to the store I had just visited – oops! At least they were very nice about it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We finished watching \u201cBlue Lights\u201d (so good!) and have started season two of \u201cA Man on the Inside.\u201d We\u2019re also rewatching season one of \u201cThe Night Manager.\u201d I\u2019m reading Morgan Housel\u2019s \u201cThe Art of Spending Money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy birthday, Ginger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had big fun at the EU Ambassador\u2019s home on Friday night, along with our Ambassador and the ambassadors for the Canadians and Brits. He has a beautiful pizza oven and is a Neapolitan pizza expert. He brought in most of the ingredients from Italy and taught us how to form the crust and cook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}