This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. We started the day with an Uber, not to the airport this time, but across the border to Offenburg, Germany, where our rental car was waiting. It felt a little strange to be picking up […]

This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. It was glorious morning to leave Troyes. Chris and I wandered out to grab coffee before we’d even really woken up, and found a cafe on the corner where Jason, Jamie, and Izzy were already […]

This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Today we said goodbye to Paris and hit the road, literally, this time, instead of the trains that had carried us across three countries so far. Our Airbnb was having its windows replaced, of all […]

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 […]