• Glendalough, Ireland and Wicklow Mountains National Park
    October 26, 2016
    Gorgeous GlendaloughLast week Cope and I spent a few days in Ireland sans kids (thanks, Mom!) to celebrate our 15th anniversary. We’d been to Dublin as a foursome a few years ago when we were still living in London, but on that trip we didn’t have a chance to explore the gorgeous Irish countryside. This time we...
  • A Visit to Oia, Santorini, Greece
    August 3, 2016
    The beautiful Greek island of SantoriniIt’s no secret that the Greek island of Santorini is one of the more beautiful places in the known universe. The whites, the blues, the cliffs, the caldera! It’s almost too much. At the top of Santorini’s curated gorgeousness spectrum is the village of Oia, nestled into the island’s northwestern coast. On...
  • A Visit to Alicante, Spain in Photos + Disclaimers
    July 21, 2016
    Disclaimer #1I’ll just put it out there right away that this post about our visit to Alicante got lost at the bottom of the drafts pile for a while. Like a two years-ish while, as regular readers will notice immediately from those tiny silhouettes in Photo #2. But we’ve been to and loved Alicante twice...
  • A Visit to Iceland: Blue Lagoon
    October 20, 2015
    Hello! It’s still the weekend, yes? I thought I’d post this on Sunday, but the bottle of Chandon I drank from nose to tail on Saturday night (to be an amenable host, naturally) had other plans. Maybe if this post had been a live feed of me dipping into the purifying geothermal waters of Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, I...
  • A Visit to Iceland: Hello, Reykjavik
    October 16, 2015
    Hæ again, and welcome back to Iceland week. (That’s Icelandic for “hi,” and it sounds like…”hi.” Very exotic.) This is the second of three posts about our July trip to southwestern Iceland, and today it’s all about Reykjavik. You can find the first post, about the south coast and Golden Circle, here. With only four...