This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Today was an earlier start than we’ve gotten used to in Paris. We were picking up a rental car for the day to drive out to Normandy, and there’s something about an early-morning boulangerie stop […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Today is our last full day in Paris, and it felt like it: the kind of day where nobody quite has the energy to make big plans, so you let the city set the pace […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Happy Independence Day to everybody back home. We celebrated it a little differently this year, several time zones and an ocean away. After breakfast, we took the train toward the Bastille, where we got out […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Eleven days in, and for the first time this trip, all six of us were in the same city. Jason, Jamie, and Izzy had landed the day before, jet-lagged and wide-eyed, and today was the […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. We checked out of Apartment #1 this morning and took a train to our second apartment in Paris. Trading one corner of Paris for another. Chris had picked this one, and he’d done well: right […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. There’s a particular kind of relief that comes with a day that has nothing on it. After a week of trains, graduations, ceremonies, and a Belgian farewell tour, July 1st was our first real chance […]