Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Hot weather in Belgium can be solved by kayaking the cool River Lesse in Dinant. Past castles and under trees, between geese and fish and alongside ducklings, occasionally bumping into other kayakers or each other in the shallows. And after kayaking, beer at Maison Leffe , the brewery dating back to 1240 that stands high…
We went to Sicily to see if we liked it enough to try to invest in some real estate. I LOVED Sicily. It was better than I expected in every way… although the stone 17th Century hillside homes we liked would cost a little more to renovate than I budgeted. But it was our 16th…
I love pizza. I LOVE IT. I think I could eat pizza every day and never get tired of it. The worst pizza I’ve ever had was two summers ago in France. I got a “local specialities” pizza in Bayeau, and the gummy local ham was so chewy it rendered the pizza inedible. Now we…
Pena Palace in Sintra, outside Lisbon, is a short hop from our friends’ house. It looked like rain in the afternoon, so we all brought our jackets. This turned out to be very appreciated. We wound up the mountainside first by car, then hiking on the road, then climbing up garden paths. The higher we…
It is so relaxing to have someone else lead the way around their city. Our flight school friends, the Bayers, came to visit us in Brussels a couple weeks ago, and we were able to pop over to Lisbon and see them again before they head back to the States this summer. We’d planned to…
A couple weeks ago we got to host our friends the Bayers in Brussels. This weekend, we got to squeeze in a visit to them before they move this summer! They live in Sintra, near Lisbon, Portugal, but I keep having to remind myself we’re in Europe, not San Diego. The purple jacaranda trees, the…
Good heavens, I started this post in February. We’ve really been on the go. We found out in January that there was a good chance we’d be heading to Japan in the summer. That didn’t pan out; we’re (probably) leaving in November to arrive in Japan in December. But with the specter of moving early…
