When we left on this trip on September 30, 2018, nearly everything was open ended. We bought three one way tickets to Rome just in time f...

This stretch of travel started off… bad. I wrote about that here. But it was so epic that I decided to tease it out so I could give Norwa...

We always fly direct. Always. Unless it’s impossible. We are so committed to this that when we realized we needed to get from Dublin to B...

The day we left France I worried we might not feel the warmth of the sun for quite some time. We were heading up to Ireland, and from the...

Barcelona By the time we’d worked out our dates, lodging in Barcelona was so sparse and pricey that we ended up staying only four nights....

We left Valencia on a Monday afternoon. It’s always hard to pack up after a month. It starts out fine, we have so much space! We’re givin...

OK, this hiatus is a bit embarrassing. I don’t think I’d quite realized how long it had been since I’d blogged. I’ve wanted to, but I’ve ...

After Morocco, the first day in Madrid was a dream. Madrid had everything we missed in Marrakech. To-go coffee. Languages comprehensible ...

I am writing this from Spain. After 100 days outside the Schengen Visa Zone, we’re back, baby. When we were getting ready to embark on th...

Our Marrakech chapter is coming to a close. As we geared up to leave Rome back in November, I realized that it had knocked a few other ci...

I used to travel with only a carry on. It didn’t matter the length of the trip. I could pack for 5-7 days in a rolling suitcase, and any ...

There is a silly game I would play with friends after a few glasses of wine, late in the evening when the conversation died down. (I shou...

I have never been anywhere where people love babies as much as Morocco. The medina in Marrakech is just as crowded and chaotic as forecas...

On February 1, we boarded a plane from London Gatwick to Marrakech Menara airport. It so happened that we had fevers and chesty coughs an...

One interesting thing I have learned spending three weeks in Scotland is that the Scots take their food very seriously. All I knew about ...

So You’re Taking a Trip Traveling with a little kid can be a joy. We talk to so many more people wherever we go, and have way more person...

Week two in Amsterdam, and we managed to start seeing some sights. We each went separately to the Van Gogh Museum (get timed entry ticket...

We’ve tried to strike a balance between planned and flexible with this trip. Some things were set in stone before we left, and some thing...

Arrivederci Italia! The fact that Italy was the first stop on our trip was driven by my teaching appointment at the American University o...

Monday we arrived in Parma. I will admit to being a bit nervous. We loved Bologna and were bummed to only be there for two days. We had a...