Around the time many of you confessed you’d like to see, hear and read other travelers’ voices around here, American-in-Paris Danee Gilmartin dropped me a note offering to guest blog on C&C. As luck would have it, I was leaving just days later for Tassie and could really use the help. I checked out some [...]
Photo Friday: San Sebastian, Spain
February 19, 2010 By 29 Comments
During my first stint writing a guidebook exactly four years ago, I got a bit of a crush. As SVV was already in the picture at that point, thank God the crush was not on a boy but a city. A city that, unfortunately, I was too busy soaking in the beauty and culture to [...]
Photo Friday: Zaanse Schans, Netherlands
February 12, 2010 By 14 Comments
Back in the very beginning days of Scott + Kristin—in 2005, before there hardly was such a thing—we lived in Holland. I shared a bed with my best friend Megan in the attic of some horrid Surinamese woman’s home in Utrecht (I really must tell you that story one day); Scott lived a half an [...]
Photo Friday: Kolding, Denmark
January 8, 2010 By 14 Comments
One of my favorite things about traveling in one place for an extended period of time is befriending locals who want to take you under their wing and even home with them if you’re lucky. Helle, who I’ve talked about a fair amount—and who has come to visit me in California and New York and [...]
Photo Friday: Budapest, Hungary
December 4, 2009 By 16 Comments
Four years ago, our first Christmas together, SVV and I packed up all our belongings in Holland, shipped them to our new home in Denmark (to never see them again, actually; stupid Dutch Post), and headed to Central and Eastern Europe for three weeks in lieu of going back to the States for the holidays. [...]
Happy Anniversary, Germany
November 9, 2009 By 13 Comments
Twenty years ago today marked one of the most significant day’s in Germany’s history. After 28 years of both a physical and psychological barrier separating East and West Berlin, the Wall came down. And it was all thanks to Günter Schabowski, a spokesperson for the politburo, who made the mistake of telling the press that [...]
Climb Every Mountain
October 30, 2009 By 30 Comments
True, my recent jaunt to Switzerland was a “work trip,” but really it was all about pushing my body to the limits and sufficiently freaking myself out. Observe: Yes, that’s me, dangling by two carabiners and little else—without being belayed, mind you—somewhere around 10,000 feet in the Alps. Full disclosure? It was AWESOME. Especially when [...]
Photo Friday: Edinburgh, Scotland
October 9, 2009 By 23 Comments
I traveled a lot around the country as a child, thanks to a go-getter, nomadic Mom who spent much of her twenties on the road herself, but had only crossed the border to Mexico, the Caribbean, England and Italy before I moved to Edinburgh in 2003. And my obsession with Europe—and travel in general—was sparked. [...]
