It’s a new year! We didn’t get outside of Richmond in January, but I did get a chance to play with my new iPhone photography toys (a new tripod and wide-angle lens). Here’s what the month looked like for us: View this post on Instagram A mix of in-use and out-of-use train tracks makes Brown's…
In 2014, we lived in Germany, spent a full month on the French Mediterranean coast, and visited 17 other countries. And at the end of the year, we decided to move back to Richmond, VA (having just counted the number of countries we visited last year, I’m now wondering why). Safe to say, 2015 will be…
Last month, we did some hiking in North Carolina, took a quick trip to Washington DC, and drove all the way to Florida and back for Christmas! Here’s what it looked like: View this post on Instagram Yesterday, in an effort to break up the post-Thanksgiving drive, we stopped at Crowders Mountain State Park in…
On the drive home from Thanksgiving, Erin and I decided to stretch our legs with a short hike in Crowders Mountain State Park in North Carolina. We’d heard from a friend that it was easy to access, not too difficult, and the views were nice. Upon arriving, we grabbed a trail map at the visitor…
You might have read that after leaving France, we decided to move back to Richmond. As our most recent home in the US, and the place where many of our US-based friends live, it was a pretty easy choice (you know what’s not easy – missing Freiburg a lot). After spending time in Florida with Erin’s…
Most people don’t realize just how close the 5 towns of Cinque Terre are to each other, but there’s only 12 kilometers between the first and the last. In fact, if all 4 coastal walking/hiking paths are open, the entire route can be hiked in about 5 hours. When I first heard of Cinque Terre,…
Each month, we’ll post our best Instagrammed photos to our blog. Here are September’s:
It’s been a long time between posts on the blog – sorry about that! We’ll hopefully have more about our transition back to the US soon, but for now, there’s a backlog of written, but not posted, items from our time in Nice. Here’s the first! — As I mentioned in a post about day…
Each month, we’ll post our best Instagrammed photos to our blog. Here are August’s:
30 days in Nice leaves time for a lot of day trips. Situated right in the middle of the French Riviera, Nice is the perfect jumping off point for short trips to multiple coastal towns. Here are some of my favorite to Nice’s east. Eze Eze is actually two towns; Eze sur mer, which is…
Brian and I got back a few days ago from a 3-day trip to Cinque Terre on the western coast of Italy, and it exceeded every. single. one. of my expectations (which were already too high, IMO, especially for a place I’d never been before). We stayed at a hostel in Riomaggiore, which is the…
Having been in Nice for almost 3 weeks now, we’ve made a pretty serious dent in the number of beaches visited. We even splurged and bought a 20€ beach umbrella, so it’s been more than comfortable to sit on the beach for prolonged periods of time (especially given the lack of pigmentation in both mine…
Europe is covered in graffiti and awkward signage. Whether it’s cleverly-placed spray paint or a sign-post with an impossible-to-ascertain meaning, you can often find something to make you chuckle while just wandering the streets. Here are pictures of a few of those instances. First, the signage: Now, the graffiti: What do you think? Seen anything while traveling that makes…
I was going to call this “Nice: First Impressions,” and then I thought, well, are they really first impressions after 2 weeks? Procrastination at its finest! Anyway, here are some of my random thoughts (with pictures, of course) about Nice and the surrounding areas. Hello, gorgeous! There’s pretty much nothing more beautiful than a sparkling,…
My quest to try all of Freiburg’s ice cream flavors has continued, and now even includes Belize, so I figured it was time for an update. When we last left off, I had determined that mint just doesn’t taste as good around Germany as it does back home, so I’ve left it alone. There have been,…
The Wildly Ordinary Life 