We took a detour south to Fez, Morocco this week to spend some time with our friends Marcus, Amy and their three-year-old son Luca. We’re staying in the Medina, the old section of this thousand-year-old city in a riad,...
Tech Travel Tools
When we took our three month trip to Europe in 2007, the iPhone revolution was just brewing (I got my first one in January 2008, after we returned). For that trip, we had one cell phone between us, for...
Little Black Bag
You’ve seen it in the photos – that one piece of luggage that’s not a backpack. It’s the piece that bumps us from being the lightweight travelers who bring only carry-ons to that other category who checks their luggage....
Gazpacho in a Box
How awesome is that? Every grocery store in Sevile, from tiny to super, sells gazpacho like it was orange juice. Little tiendas have a house made blend and the big markets have several mass produced brands. And from my...
I Want My Wife Back!
To all those who believe that gluten sensitivity is some made up thing, mentally pairing it with anti-vaxxers and the Food Babe, to you I say blblblblbblbllb! A week ago, we made our way down to the Time Out Market, a...
Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon! Such fun to have our own cabin with fold-down beds. We got to watch the Basque countryside slide by, sprinkled with glimpses of farms and valleys, terracotta towns and huffing factories, snapshot of teenage girls...
San Sebastian
We spent last week in San Sebastian on the north Atlantic coast of Spain with my brother’s family. We’d had a great time, although I’m not sure I would direct a traveller there. The architecture is wonderfully ornate, like a little...
Day(s) at the Beach
After two weeks in a nice little apartment on the edge of the old city of Seville, we switched apartments out on the edge of Triana. While the section of town is also quite old (with the first settlements...