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Trooping the Colour in London
When we began our sabbatical travels over a year ago, we sat down with our two daughters and took turns sticking pins in a map of Europe for all the places we’d like to visit. Our six-year-old wanted...
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Las Fallas Festival
The Las Fallas festival in Valencia, on the Costa Blanca of Spain, was one of our most memorable Spanish festivals! I had heard about this city-wide celebration, the grandest of Valencia events, with...
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Las Fallas Festival
Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain is one of the best Spanish festivals and an exciting cultural experience. The most spectacular of Valencia events, Fallas is held each March to celebrate the unique...
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Kid-Friendly City Hotels
Family travel with kids requires hotels that work well for everyone. Our year living abroad took us to over thirty hotels in many cities, and I am now quite adept at finding hotels that work well for...
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Top Three Travel Secrets
I’m it… I’ve been tagged by the top three travel secret players.A good travel secret for me is one that gives me a strong sense of place. I want to feel like a local and have a glimpse of what life is...
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Carnival of Cities
Join me on an around the world tour with a Carnival of Cities. Top travel bloggers share their favorite places, attractions and stories from various cities around the world, from public art in San...
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Discovering Love in Barcelona
Atrium at La Pedrera I found an old love in Barcelona. I stumbled upon him with my 7-year-old daughter outside Le Pedrera, “that apartment building you really want to go see Mom with the long line.”...
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Laughs in London
“Make a Queen’s Guard Laugh” was my daughters’ favorite game while we were traveling in London.You know those serious faced guys outside of Buckingham Palace who stand at attention all day in their...
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Great Places to Stay
Where to stay when traveling is as important to me as the destination itself. I want a “home away from home.” A place to nest, put my feet up at the end of a day and savor my discoveries. I also want...
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Day of Rest
It’s Day 11 on our Camino de Santiago and after 303km (that’s 188 miles to us Americans) we opted for a day of rest in the city of Burgos. A quick look on my Trip Advisor app, and I landed us a hotel...
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Going to Cuba
My visit to Cuba was a mixture of emotions. It was fun, cool, sad, confusing, complex, exciting, stimulating. I left wanting to learn more about Cuba, to better understand both sides of American and...
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Cuba Pictures: See Havana
Fidel: A man of ideas and action. Che. I wonder what this counter-culturalist would think of the Havana Bus Tour? It’s hard to remember it’s the 21st century. Kids, like kids everywhere in the world,...
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Living Life in Buenos Aires
We are stepping away again to live life more clearly, this time to Buenos Aires. While a rushing city of 3 million, we look forward to stillness, time off the clock, time together as a family.
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Buenos Aires: Insider’s Guide
Here’s my week one Insider’s Guide to Life in BA:Three words to describe my first week living in Buenos Aires: anxious, stimulated, curious Highlight of the week: Our apartment at the Live Hotel!...
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Kid-Friendly City Hotels
Family travel with kids requires hotels that work well for everyone. Our year living abroad took us to over thirty hotels in many cities, and I am now quite adept at finding hotels that work well for...
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