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    • Background
    • Puttin’ On The Fritz
    • An Ernest Perspective
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    • Introduction: Sabbatical in Fribourg, Switzerland, 2015-2016
    • Au Revoir, USA!
    • Everyone Has Baggage
    • New Road, New Town, New Life
    • Fonduementals
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    • Moitié-Moitié
    • What (zer)Matters Most
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    • An Ernest Perspective
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  • Western Europe
    • Austria
      • Song, Suds, Salt & Soccer
    • France
      • Above Par(is)
      • In the heArt of Paris
      • Barbarians at the Gate
      • Raiders of Les Arcs
      • SPAIN, Part I: Basquing in Spring
      • SPAIN, Part II: Catalunar Landing
      • Springtime in… oui, c’est Paris
      • In Vitra… then Bored to the Beaune
      • In Lovender 💜
    • Germany
      • Song, Suds, Salt & Soccer
      • In Vitra… then Bored to the Beaune
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      • (Amster)Dam Awesome!
    • United Kingdom
      • UK, PART I: Merry Potter! Christmas in England
      • UK, PART II: So Lochy! Hogmanay in Scotland
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      • Ljub-ly Slovenia and more
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    • Sweden
      • How Swede It Is
  • Southern Europe
    • Italy
      • ITALY PART I: Linguini Franca
      • ITALY PART II. On Top of Spaghetti
    • Spain
      • SPAIN, Part I: Basquing in Spring
      • SPAIN, Part II: Catalunar Landing
  • Morocco
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    • ITALY PART I: Linguini Franca
    • ITALY PART II. On Top of Spaghetti
    • UK, PART I: Merry Potter! Christmas in England
    • SPAIN, Part I: Basquing in Spring
    • SPAIN, Part II: Catalunar Landing
    • Ljub-ly Slovenia and more
    • Hatches’ Landing(s)
    • Song, Suds, Salt & Soccer
    • In Vitra… then Bored to the Beaune
    • In Lovender 💜
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How Swede It Is

June 29, 2016by Inspire World Travel Leave a comment

Heyyyyyy, Stockholm! “Hej!” is the standard greeting in Swedish, which – it turns out – sounds like the American friendly and informal “hey!” we give friends we know well. This […]

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Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Stockholm, Sweden

Springtime in… oui, c’est Paris

May 20, 2016by Inspire World Travel Leave a comment

For the second of three long weekends in May on the boys’ school schedule, we decided to return to Paris. A city we all love, only three hours by train from Geneva […]

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Art, Food, France, Paris, Western Europe

(Amster)Dam Awesome!

May 10, 2016by Inspire World Travel 2 Comments

(Amster)Dam Awesome! We just returned from three pretty perfect days in Amsterdam, taking full advantage of the many long weekends on our kids’ May school calendar (thanks, Catholics!). So… Amsterdam. What […]

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Amsterdam, Art, Netherlands, Resources, Travel Planning, Unique Experiences, Western Europe

SPAIN, Part II: Catalunar Landing

April 26, 2016by Inspire World Travel 4 Comments

SPAIN, Part II: Catalunar Landing. From Madrid (see SPAIN, Part I: Basquing in Spain; here you can see our route referred to in Part II), we ventured into beautiful territory on our […]

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Resources, Road Trips, Southern Europe, Spain, Travel Planning, Unique Experiences

SPAIN, Part I: Basquing in Spring

April 20, 2016by Inspire World Travel 4 Comments

SPAIN, Part I: Basquing in Spring. If it’s a school break, it’s another country. This time, we drove to Spain (mainly because we CAN! How fun is that?!?), as planned […]

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Art, Resources, Road Trips, Southern Europe, Spain, Travel Planning, Unique Experiences

Express Marrakech

March 9, 2016by Inspire World Travel 4 Comments

Express Marrakech (apologies to Crosby, Stills & Nash). We’ve had a crazy few weeks that included the very sad death of my father-in-law. He was a kind, humble, easy-going man […]

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Marrakech, Morocco, Ski, Southern Europe, Travel Planning

Raiders of Les Arcs

February 22, 2016by Inspire World Travel 2 Comments

Raiders of Les Arcs. We recently returned from a fun winter break at a great resort in France called Les Arcs. We scheduled this ski week a year ago, fearing that […]

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Alps, Resources, Ski, Travel Planning, Unique Experiences, Western Europe

Moitié-Moitié

February 15, 2016by Inspire World Travel Leave a comment

Moitié-Moitié. Half-half. Normally, that refers to THE standard for fondue: half Gruyère cheese and half Vacherin Fribourgeois cheese [side note: these are protected names (“AOP” or “appellation d’origine protégée”), so […]

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Switzerland, Unique Experiences

What (zer)Matters Most

January 25, 2016by Inspire World Travel 9 Comments

What (zer)Matters Most. I’m on such a high from the weekend, I can’t decide where to begin. But being married to a social psychologist, I know that human relationships are more […]

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Alps, Ski, Switzerland, Unique Experiences

UK, PART II: So Lochy! Hogmanay in Scotland

January 11, 2016by Inspire World Travel 3 Comments

UK, PART II: So Lochy! Hogmanay in Scotland. [See UK, Part I about Christmas in England here.] First, a note of appreciation for Heathrow’s Terminal 5. This may be the best, […]

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Edinburgh, Hogmanay, Resources, Scotland, Travel Planning, UK, Unique Experiences, United Kingdom, Western Europe

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