A Loire Valley Chateau
What do you do for a significant wedding anniversity? Rent a French chateau on a lake in the Loire Valley with 32 bedrooms and invite 60 or so of your best friends, of course.
Amsterdam
OK, so if you’re a young bro, you probably go to smoke some legal weed (come on guys, it’s legal nearly everywhere now) and gawk at the women in the windows in the red-light district.
Foraging My Way Through Noma
Noma is a three-Michelin-star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi, and co-founded by Claus Meyer, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Okay, so every food writer has written about Noma in the past twenty-plus years.
What more can we say about it?
Paris Bears
Even in the depths of COVID, the Parisians had a sense of humor.
Arzak, San Sebastian
Years ago, I spent a week in San Sebastian to attend a Spanish language immersion class.
Athens
Going to Greece? Some people will tell you to skip Athens and go straight to the Cyclades islands. (After the cab driver from the airport rips you off, you might be tempted.) Are they kidding? And miss out on that big old (really old) building—the Parthenon. And the food!