A week after our Budapest trip we were in Paris for an extended weekend. We stayed in the Voltaire/Bastille neighborhood again. We found street after street lined by “boutique shops”, run mostly by Asians and selling the most horrendous outfits for shockingly low prices. Some of them had particularly creepy […]
Our original plan for the Ascension holiday weekend was to visit Annecy, which we have wanted to do for some time (since winter). Then we checked the weather forecast; it promised mostly rainy and chilly weather around Annecy and Grenoble. Another look at the weather map told us to go […]
It’s been three years since we last visited our friends in Chinchón and three years since we ran our last street marathon, also in Madrid. As usual we arrived at Madrid-Barajas T4 and picked up our rental car in T1, and then drove about 50km south to Chinchón. On our […]
So we were in Groningen, the Netherlands, for a conference for four days. We’ve never met as crazy a bicycle town as Groningen. You may expect that a completely bicycle friendly town with practically no cars would be a nice and relaxed place to go about. Think again. Groningen is […]
We never used to think that Europe is a place with unique characteristics that its members share and at the same time make it a thing, different from other things. Salad at Crudo Osteria Temporane, Turin, Italy. To us what constituted Europe appeared as separate countries like Finland, Germany, Spain, […]