One Country at a Time
Posted in Europe I Love Thee, Photo Friday, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on Feb 19th, 2010
During my first stint writing a guidebook exactly four years ago, I got a bit of a crush. As SVV was already in the picture at that point, thank God the crush was not on a boy but a city.
A city that, unfortunately, I was too busy soaking in the beauty and culture to take [...]
Posted in Europe I Love Thee, Photo Friday, The Travel Bug on Feb 12th, 2010
Back in the very beginning days of Scott + Kristin—in 2005, before there hardly was such a thing—we lived in Holland. I shared a bed with my best friend Megan in the attic of some horrid Surinamese woman’s home in Utrecht (I really must tell you that story one day); Scott lived a half an [...]
Posted in Europe I Love Thee, Photo Friday on Jan 8th, 2010
One of my favorite things about traveling in one place for an extended period of time is befriending locals who want to take you under their wing and even home with them if you’re lucky. Helle, who I’ve talked about a fair amount—and who has come to visit me in California and New York and [...]
Posted in Europe I Love Thee, Photo Friday, The Travel Bug on Dec 4th, 2009
Four years ago, our first Christmas together, SVV and I packed up all our belongings in Holland, shipped them to our new home in Denmark (to never see them again, actually; stupid Dutch Post), and headed to Central and Eastern Europe for three weeks in lieu of going back to the States for the holidays. [...]
