Lately, there's been a lot of bad publicity about chef René Redzepi, the founder and driving force behind Noma — the Copenhagen restaurant he closed in 2024 following a reckoning over the treatment of its staff.

We recently checked into a VRBO for an eight-night stay in Barrio de las Letras in Madrid, a neighborhood that was home to some great 17th-century writers. 

We are back in Paris and there’s so much to do with hardly any time to do it. However, one of my favorite things is to walk through the Jardin du Luxembourg, one of the city’s most beautiful parks.

It’s been a while since we’ve been to Spain so here we go, top to bottom starting in Basque. The Basque country straddles the North of Spain and the South of France. 

I’ve grown complacent about the world speaking English. Everywhere we travel I speak to people in English, assuming that they speak it as well.