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...

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...

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...

We have just completed a week in Merviel, a tiny village in Ariege, a region in southwestern France that encompasses part of the Pyrenees...

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...

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...

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...

I write this as I’m doing something I’ve done only a few times before: leaving WP overnight. I did it first when she was four months old,...

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...

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

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

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

We have chosen our destinations on this trip in a lot of different ways. Rome to start because I had the teaching gig at the American...

I would like to say that a week in four homes in four cities in three countries was not as challenging as we thought it was going to be...

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

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

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...