F is for Florence and FOOD!

Sorry its taking me forever to document the trip! Today I want to tell you about Florence.  It was a very quick trip… we arrive around lunchtime on a Wednesday and left first thing Friday morning for Rome. This limited us to stay in Florence proper, meaning no day-trips to wineries or hill towns.  This…

Christmas Lights

We pause the coverage of the best vacation ever for a music moment, brought to you by Coldplay.  This is AWESOME! I love the visuals in the video – especially the piano with the different colored keys and the fireworks at the end.  Well done!!!

Getting Lost in Venice, EVERYTHING I hoped for and more!

Ahhhh Venice…. Venice is the most beautiful place I have ever visited in my life.  The place is magic.  Its really hard to explain, and the mystique definitely took me be surprise.  Maybe it was the stress of Paris lingering or simply the change in the weather, but something changed when we landed at Marco…

Notre Dame vs. Eiffel Tower

Did you know that more people visit the Notre Dame cathedral each year than the Eiffel Tower? I was surprised to learn that fact. I really enjoyed my visit to both, but for very different reasons. When you visit a cathedral like Notre Dame, its easy to be distracted by the tourism.  But I tried…

Getting Lost in Paris – Not What I Expected

I can’t think of any creative way to launch into the stories of our recent trip to Paris and Italy so I figure I better just start at the beginning or I may never start at all! Our flight was direct from IAD to CDG and the flight was surprisingly fast.  I think we caught…

A Teaser – Flash Mob Notre Dame October 9, 2010

I am so anxious to get some blogs going about our trip.  However, we hit a minor MAJOR snag when we returned to a broken MAC desktop.  I can’t fully talk about it until I know exactly the prognosis but it does not look good.  I am now a cautionary tale: BACK UP YOUR JANK…

Parisian Perspectives

life in Paris has not quite been what I expected. don’t get me wrong it’s been an amazing adventure. but just different than expected. a few observations (typing this on an iPhone so have grace with the typos) I am very aware of how unfashionable I am. they eat way more French fries than in…

Vacatunes

Leaving soon for Europe, and music is a must.  Good music that is.  And thanks to itunes I have plenty.  Here are a few bands I am taking with me on the trip of a lifetime: By Album: Robert Randolph and the Family Band – We Walk This Road Need to Breathe – The Outsiders…

City of Blinding Light

And cheese.  And wine.  And butter.  And la pastries.  And le pain.  And cute cafes. And boutiques. And Art. And some really cool old stuff. I shall be there soon Parieeee.  Please don’t be raining when I get there! C’est si Bon!

Yall Ever Rode on the Metro? Classic!

For my non-DC friends, this may not be as funny as it will be to my DC friends.  But there is this guy in town who has been making rap videos about areas around DC for the past several years.  He raps about alot of other stuff too but the ones he does about local…