Digging into the archives, I came across some photos from my time living in Scotland in 2003. (Ignore the chipmunk cheeks to follow. I enjoyed the Baked Potato Shop just across the street from my flat and the discovery of Strongbow cider about 15 pounds more than I should have.) When it came time to [...]
Photo Friday: Bilbao, Spain
March 4, 2011 By 34 Comments
Bilbao, as a whole, is such an architectural marvel, and yet I spent 90 percent of my time there bed-ridden with a terrible case of the Spanish flu (which is so much worse than the American flu, lest you be curious). At least I was there for work and, thus, staying in five-star hotels the [...]
The One with the Edge and the Car Crash
March 2, 2011 By 44 Comments
Who knew so many of you were such big U2 fans? Or maybe you just like a good story. Regardless, after mentioning my run-in with the Edge last week back in 2003, I couldn’t not tell the story, could I? … It wasn’t even noon, and we were already at each other’s throats. Travel will [...]
Photo Friday: Bastia, Corsica
February 25, 2011 By 32 Comments
Wiping the drive of my aging Dell laptop that has been shoved under a bed collecting dust for the past five years, rendered useless by my three Macs, has unlocked so many memories for me—particularly of my second stint living in Europe in 2005, when I met SVV. During the same journalism program, we were [...]
Photo Friday: Copenhagen, Denmark
February 17, 2011 By 33 Comments
SVV and I are in the throes of a quadruple back-up of our seven computers (yes, excessive), and in the process I came across a few random (low-res) Copenhagen files each of us took with our point-and-shoots when we lived over in Denmark that I hadn’t seen, well, since we lived in Denmark. It’s such [...]
Photo Friday: Reykjavik, Iceland
February 4, 2011 By 63 Comments
One of the reasons I started participating in Photo Friday two years ago now was the chance to revisit trips I took long ago. Take Iceland, for example. It was one of my favorite vacations to date, and I haven’t so much as flipped through my photos since I got back from there in 2007. [...]
Photo Friday: Locarno, Switzerland
January 14, 2011 By 24 Comments
The best part of my trip to Switzerland in the fall of 2009 is that while it wasn’t my first visit to the country, I did get to explore an entirely new region, completely foreign to me. After my time in German Switzerland, the group headed down south, almost to the border, to the Italian [...]
Photo Friday: Møns Klint, Denmark
December 10, 2010 By 27 Comments
When SVV and I were but students at Danmarks Journalisthojskolen (try saying that five times fast) in early 2006, we traveled more often than not. (Most students at European universities would likely tell you the same.) But as opposed to Holland where we were often off frolicking in Spain or Morocco, Hungary or Romania, we [...]
Talking Turkey in Holland
November 22, 2010 By 15 Comments
This column appeared in yesterday’s travel section of the San Francisco Chronicle. “What kind of turkey?” the butcher at the pouliere, the Dutch version of a poultry shop, inquired. “Uh, there are different kinds? Just a regular ol’ turkey,” I said, miffed that there existed an entire avian world of which I clearly knew nothing. “What [...]
Photo Friday: Ticino, Switzerland
November 12, 2010 By 32 Comments
I’ve had this deep intense burning for Europe lately that I can’t exactly explain. Although it’s only been 14 months since I’ve last been on the continent—on an adventure trek through Switzerland last fall—it feels lightyears away. And then I came across SVV doing some stealthy Google mapping in our office. I got closer, and [...]
