Apologies to all 3 of my readers; in the last few days I’ve suffered my first case of writer’s block on this trip. Why, you ask? Because the last week and a half is a blur, and we’re still trying […]
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Budapest: Walking through the past to make sense of the present
Looking back on our 5 days in Budapest, I’m struck by the sometimes irreconcilable tension that we found in a city with an ‘up-and-coming’ feel in the midst of a mostly poor country that doesn’t seem to know if it wants […]
Putting our feet up in Croatia
It’s hard to know where to start on this post, as I have nearly two weeks of ground to cover on our time in Croatia. I think we’ll start with a general overview and then, per usual, a Nate story. […]
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 […]