I was really on top of blogging our adventures in January and February. And then I kind of fell off the blogging wagon until publishing this post last week. When I recently shared our blog with a friend and sheepishly […]
Paris
A Perfect 10: Building a Dream Itinerary in the ‘City of Lights’
“I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris […]
The Joy Guide to Amazing Eats in Paris (and the Five Categories of Paris Food Failure)
You knew it was only a matter of time, didn’t you? In our posts we’ve covered numerous cities and palaces throughout Europe, multiple Nate-stories, and house sitting adventures, but have yet to write a post focused exclusively on the Joy’s […]
Some Final Thoughts On Paris – The List of 5’s
We made it to Croatia! There will be more posts forthcoming on this next leg of our journey; for now, however, let’s take a look back on what was an amazing 24 days in Paris. Any of you who know […]
The Snail, The Sweat, and The Sanctuary
The True Test of a Snail We were told on one of our Paris walking tours that the true test of a snail is how easily it comes out of the shell with a utensil. The guide mentioned some restaurants […]
Settling in to a hot Parisian August (subtitle: it’s 91 degrees at 9pm)
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendour. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. In two thousand years, Paris had seen it all. This quote is at the beginning of Paris, an historical […]
Living in Belleville – the first few days
We actually met our first Parisian on the first day of our trip, in Iceland. Terra and I were wielding our enormous backpacks, and for some reason the bus driver wanted us to try to fit them on top of […]
First day in Paris – When getting one thing accomplished makes for a successful day
Imagine if you were able to accomplish one real, significant, meaningful thing each day for a year. On the surface, it’s tempting to think that one thing is a low bar since there are 12 hours of sunlight (well currently about […]