Some couples have very simple commemorations, and others are elaborate. I don’t know what the mean number of “special days” is for married people, but we have a few. We…

Let’s begin by getting the most likely snipe out of the way: nobody should have an expectation of being understood in their native tongue if they are not in a…

So. We’ve moved to a new country. We did it at the beginning of December specifically so we would meet our new home during the holidays. Heck, literally the first…

We’re changing up the flavor of the blog for this post, because the last several days in Paris tell a very different story. As we said at the end of…

Story time. (Isn’t that literally the entire blog? Shaddup.) On our second trip to Paris we were there with friends. (Hi, Ryanses!) We all had a pretty similar list of…

The end of our time in Barcelona took a strange and surprising turn. At least, it was a surprise for John; Lisa had arranged something in secret, which she likes…

Lisa and I have worked diligently to get past the typical sins of the tourist class. We still have blind spots, I’m sure, but we do our best to learn…

We named this blog “The Ramble”, but all we really did was fly to Portugal and sit tight. We could’ve just called it “The Move” as far as y’all can…

We left off last time teasing the series of milestones that passed us by on a near-daily basis. A little context: there has been some advice going around in immigrant*…

So, about that difficult move-in. One thing we’d expected, because we’ve done our research, was that it was going to be cold in our house for some period of time…