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LISTEN! Spain

I love having a playlist that reflects my travel mood, which not infrequently features ambient tunes to get me through long long flights. Spotify classified my musical type as...

Look up!

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist.” Stephen Hawking

GAP YEAR PROGRAMS

Both of my kids were fortunate enough to take a Gap Year before they started their next life steps after high school. I can’t emphasize enough how much this time benefitted each of them in...

EAT! Paris

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway...

READ! Barcelona

FICTION It is telling that almost all fiction based in Barcelona is of the noir/thriller/mystery genre.  The city is a layer cake of two thousand years of history, the stones of the old being ever...

Tokyo Tastes

So… sadly it has been a few years now since our epic whirlwind family visit to Tokyo. Like, my kids grew up since then – ack! But Japan – we will be back! It is still one of our...

Art and Architecture in Barcelona

Many people visit Barcelona for just 2-3 days, and yes you can definitely hit a few of the top-level sights in this amount of time if you hustle!!   Any “must-see” guide will include...

EAT! Barcelona

There are something like 10,000 restaurants in BCN, with 26 Michelin starred restaurants, so any recommendation list is going to be super subjective. Here are some we like! CATALAN/SPANISH...