How Swede It Is
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 […]
Springtime in… oui, c’est Paris
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 […]
(Amster)Dam Awesome!
(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 […]
SPAIN, Part II: Catalunar Landing
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 […]
SPAIN, Part I: Basquing in Spring
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 […]
Express Marrakech
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 […]
Raiders of Les Arcs
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 […]
