When you are in the US, you see your fair share of cookie warnings. We have Europe’s GDPR and ePrivacy Directive (https://gdpr.eu/cookies/) to thank for that. But when you are in Europe, the cookie warnings are on EVERY website. And it’s annoying. Let’s say you are visiting a museum website…

We visited 52 cities in our three months in Europe. I‘m going to share some pictures and stories from my top 10 cities we visited. We took over 4,000 photos during our travels so we have plenty to share! Coming in at #10 is St. Andrews, Scotland, which is a…

As you travel, you see a variety of new cities, new landscapes, new sights. But there is a certain amount of repetition to the process: you travel to a place; you walk around; you wait in lines; you see something interesting; you take pictures; etc. While we were in Europe…

Google gets a lot of bad press these days and rightfully so (e.g. they’ve destroyed the search results page with ads), but I have to give them credit when credit is due. As far as apps that help travelers, no other company is doing more. And they don’t even charge…

You may be used to the mail being delivered relatively quickly in the US, but when it comes to mailing postcards from Europe, you need to change your expectations. With one week to go before heading home from the UK, we mailed some postcards from Bath. We were home before the postcards arrived. We found that postcards can take 1–2 weeks on average assuming they make it at all. Postcards from Barcelona took two weeks. Postcards from Prague took a little over a week. A postcard we mailed from Monaco still hasn’t arrived (2 months and counting).

How can Paris be the worst at anything? It is so beautiful. It is so historic. It has everything! All of that is true, but it is the worst to drive around. I drove over 6,700 miles across Europe, so I feel I have some experience in the matter. Driving…

If you browse through travel forums, you’ll see lots of stories (in some cases horror stories) about people catching COVID while traveling abroad. Since we were going on a lengthy trip around Europe with two kids, we wanted to do everything we could to avoid catching COVID. The analysis was…

Virtually all the flights from the US to Europe are red-eye (overnight). This is so there is enough time for the plane to make the return trip back to the US in the same day. Convenient for the airlines but decidedly inconvenient for passengers. That means you often arrive in…

We just spent the day walking around Cologne, Germany — a wonderful, 2,000-year-old city situated on the Rhine River. We started at the Cologne Cathedral which is one of the tallest cathedrals in the world (also one of our favorites in Europe). …