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We’ve made the switch over to Germany and, while I’ve always been underwhelmed by my German food options, it turns out that Stuttgart is the place that changed my mind! This city is fantastic! And I’m immediately reminded that, while I spent a lot of time learning German before this trip, it was really not […]

I felt pretty proud of how our day trip to Chartres played out. Day trips are just really a wide open opportunity for travel disasters and require a lot of planning since you’re showing up at an unknown train station and trying to do a quick tourist circuit. When I planned our day trip to […]

Today I planned an outing for us to see a cathedral that is famous for its stained glass panels. The hours leading up to our early morning departure made me wary because, while I pictured an early bedtime and good night’s sleep, I instead found myself in the bathtub at 10pm last night – frantically […]

Now that I have had Berthillon ice cream once, I aim to eat it every day I’m in Paris. Because I am an excellent travel host, we waited until Sam arrived and, after 18 hours of flying time and a 9 time zone change, we gave her ten minutes to brush her teeth and throw […]