Chapter II: Gap Year Trip

Welcome, friends, to the last installment of this chapter of the Travelogue.* I write to you already back in Asheville, but I’m …

After Christine waved goodbye to us at the train station in Les Sables-d’Olonne, Emma and I spent the following ten hours in …

I was born on a wintry Monday in January 2001 and sometime during the months that followed this momentous occasion, I decided …

While Portugal was a worthwhile interruption, Andrew and I had a few stops left on our Grand Spanish Tour. After packing up …

Emma and I recently read an article about the longest possible train journey in the world. It begins, as it so happens, …

What Is It About Lisbon?

I’ve spent the last two weeks trying—and largely failing—to express just what it was that made me fall in love with Lisbon …

Hi, welcome back! Some Spaniards that I know have told me that my Spanish, while perfectly serviceable, comprises a strange conglomeration of …

Asleep in Sunny Sevilla

What’s this, another blog post so soon? You betcha, we’re stepping up our content game. That, or we’re a bit behind and …

Sure, we found some other good food to eat in Córdoba but our big Cultural Experience™ was eating snails. A lot of …