Athens: The Good, The Bad, and the Delicious
The first time we were headed to Greece, we were going to island hop around the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea for a couple of weeks. We were flying into Athens, but our friends advised us to skip the city. We love cities, and Athens is the birthplace of civilization, so how could we ignore it?
A Fresh Baguette
Paris at sunrise. The simple pleasure of going out in the morning to buy a fresh baguette.
It’s a quiet time of day, there are a few people walking to the metro, early office workers, students getting in a few extra hours of studying because they stayed out late (who wouldn’t).
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.