This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Every trip needs at least one day like this. We just didn’t expect to get all our hiccups in one sitting. We were up early in Hameln, bags packed, saying our goodbyes to a town […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. The heat didn’t take Sunday off. We woke up to another morning that felt more like a wet blanket than a weather forecast, the humidity having made sleep more of a negotiation than a rest. […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. There’s a particular kind of hot that doesn’t announce itself with drama. It just settles in, heavy and still, and by mid-morning you’ve made a quiet agreement with the day that nothing ambitious is going […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. There are mornings when you wake up with somewhere to be, and it changes everything about how the day feels. This was one of them. Michele was graduating. We took our time over breakfast, the […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. There’s something nice about a morning with no agenda. Chris was up early, early enough to slip out and come back with coffee and pastries before I’d properly surfaced, and for a while we just […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. We arrived at our hotel tired, a little sticky, and carrying the particular fog that comes with overnight travel. Berlin was already awake and already hot. Europe is in the grip of an intense heat […]