Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Clear skies and no rain for our entire drive from Belgium to Luxembourg to Germany to Austria to Germany! Temperatures didn’t even drop below freezing until after dark when we finally reached the Alps. Sunlight poured in the windows all day and it hardly felt like winter at all. Two years ago we spent Valentine’s…
A friend recommended the Stella Artois brewery to us a while ago and we finally got around to going this weekend. We often seem to be at a brewery around Valentine’s Day, so it seemed perfect! The 12 euro English tour is Saturdays at 3pm and it sells out. Kids are free. Onsite parking is…
The Tongeren Antique Market is a great place to find almost anything, including a fun day with friends!
If you’d like to experience a glimpse of what an old Athens market might have looked like, check out the Athens meat and fish market. This is also a great place to impress and gross out your kids! Goat heads in a basket—skin removed, eyeballs intact—was one of my favorite things to watch the kids…
There’s a chain of stores in Belgium and France called Troc—literally, “stuff.” It’s second hand tables, couches, mirrors, art, school maps, sideboards, bedroom sets, and … well… stuff. A year ago I visited this shop with friends and found the perfect gigantic antiqued mirror with a gray hand-carved frame. These huge rectangular mirrors are often…
Halfway home from Paris, Isaac gasped, “I forgot my phone!” This was annoying. First of all, Isaac had summarily dismissed my repeated suggestions to use a backpack or bag to contain all the items he was juggling. Second, we were caravanning the 3+ hour drive home to Brussels with Hannah and her family, still jetlagged…
Christmas Market Mugs—this is a 2021 addition to our Christmas celebration. At the Brussels Christmas Market in 2019 BC, we got used to paying four euros for a cup of gluhwein, then turning in your cup to get the one euro deposit back. I heard people remark on what boring cups they were and how…
