When you first go to Paris, the first thing you’ll want to do is to see all the sights. And we started with the best view and worst building

I know it’s cliché to say that Paris is one of my favorite cities. But after more than a few visits, it has grown on me. The first time I...

When I first went to Paris, I hated it. It was back in the day when I was Couchsurfing across Europe, and it was right when Couchsurfing was

Often when we travel, my wife and I like to tag on an extra destination. Somewhere we’re traveling through we can just kind of add on and...

Everybody knows the Louvre. It’s the unequivocally gigantic art museum of nearly 782,000 square feet that used to be the home of the late Fr

Already tired from all the driving and sightseeing, we had one more destination to see: Colmar. Colmar is the Queen City of Alsace, a town w

There seems to be no shortage of beautiful villages in the world and that’s certainly true for the Alsatian region of France. Snuggled betwe

In the last blog, I talked extensively about Strasbourg, a kind of Venice of Alsace, or an Amsterdam of the South, as some might say....

The old town area is the Grand Island (Grand Ile), a huge island created by a network of canals off of the River Ill. Few cities can compare