February 15, 2019
Jessie Bellamy deserves all the props because she visited Amsterdam in the heart of zero-dark-winter February for the sole purpose of hanging out with us and she is the absolute best. We started the week renting a Connect Car and… Continue Reading…
February 6, 2019
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been under the radar ever since I got back from Marrakech. At first I was just worn out from the trip and recovering, but then the days began to stretch out and I… Continue Reading…
January 22, 2019
I took an excursion to Marrakech, Morocco for a long weekend with the women from a club I joined shortly after moving to Amsterdam. Within hours after arriving in Marrakech, I found myself naked in a traditional Hammam with four… Continue Reading…
January 15, 2019
We decided to have our stuff shipped over from storage, and it arrived on Friday. We moved here without knowing where we’d live and didn’t have a sense of how much space we’d have so we didn’t bring a lot… Continue Reading…
January 8, 2019
I turned 47 on January 5 and I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge some truths about the past year. Last year, I had an “intimate” birthday celebration with some of my dearest friends, many of whom traveled a… Continue Reading…
January 3, 2019
James Wilson and I had our first dental appointments today. Overall I’d say things went pretty well, although just before the hygienist started to clean my teeth, she casually said “When it hurts, you scream.” Believe it or not, that… Continue Reading…
January 1, 2019
We’ve been hearing how crazy New Year’s Eve is in Amsterdam since we moved here, and I can now confirm, it’s nuts. The Dutch love a spectacle, and on NYE, it’s all about the fireworks. They go on sale three… Continue Reading…
December 29, 2018
We spent the last two days of our Christmas road trip in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany. It’s a perfectly preserved German town that dates back to the middle ages. We loved it, and despite it being the most touristy… Continue Reading…
December 26, 2018
The hills are alive with the sound of Christmas in the Austrian countryside. Kim and her boyfriend, Patrick, played tour guides and took us all over Vienna. We rode multiple forms of public transportation, drank mugs of gluhwein and kinderpunch,… Continue Reading…
December 22, 2018
This year we’re spending Christmas in Austria with our friend Kim and her family. Kim was our au pair and lived with us for two years back in Virginia. We got to know her family when they came to visit,… Continue Reading…