If You Can Get Past the Sticker Shock
...or if your budget can withstand the world's priciest city, Zurich is for you. We read on the train ride from Paris that Zurich...


Bastille Day
We watched explosions of twinkling fairy dust against the dark sky, the Eiffel Tower shimmering like an oversized sparkler dominating the...
Don't Lose It!
If we lose the keys at our Paris VRBO, we'll be charged five-hundred Euros. In dollars, that's... a lot, especially since I can get a key...


So Close
I felt warm pressure and realized it was the woman behind me. The inch I managed to claim while waiting in line for the Tower had...


Tea And a Memory
During WWII, my dad was invited to dinner with a French family. Before he left the barracks that night, he ducked into the mess hall,...


"It's Cheaper Than Butter"
exclaimed my exuberant husband, dropping a massive wheel of brie into our weird shopping cart. We hauled the cart up the flight of stairs...


Apparently It Was Illegal
but Gary and Lauren climbed a sculpture shaped like a pile of blocks winding into the sky like a chunky staircase, a staircase set on the...


A New Use for Tea
Standing outside our front door with our beachy feet, we had two choices: we could track sand into our fussy landlord's apartment, or we...


"I See an Eyeball."
We ordered fried fish, imagining chunks of something freshly caught in a crispy batter but getting instead a pile that looked like french...


Just Close That Door
Getting over the threshold is the hardest part of any adventure. By the time the house key is in the lock, I feel like I've run a...


