Tomorrow will be two weeks since we moved to Italy. I’m realizing now that when I made the announcement on IG many thought I meant we moved for the summer. I wouldn’t call that moving. Our move may come as a surprise to some but its something that E and I and our kids have…
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Tales from the Reading Room
Close to the most popular playground with my family lies a building most celebrated by myself, the greatest, most important location in a city: the library. These valuable institutions dispense knowledge and information to the people within the city. The one in Princeton was both my most visited and favorite location. On our second day…
By Jude: Stolto Pride
We left Princeton early in June, after the annual Pride Picnic, but before most pride events, including the Pride Parade. So it was a pleasant surprise when we saw the posters advertising a pride event in Trieste. I had read the news from last year, and was mildly familiar with the organization running it, Smarza…
Spaghetti Vongole
When we were in Sardegna, I think one of our best meals at home was spaghetti vongole. A simply prepared spaghetti with clams. I have never cooked clams at home but one morning when visiting the market with our friends I saw the fishmonger selling bags of clams. That particular morning we were getting seafood…
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RAISING MAMA: Nourishing Body & Soul in the Fourth Trimester and Beyond
Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 10am-1pm $50 N O W : Y O G A 61 4th Avenue, 3rd Fl New York, NY 10003 To Register: Click on link to Mindbodyonline or email info@nowyogany.com or call 646-596-7772 For More Info: email victorialeger@gmail.com Becoming a mother can be joyful, transformative, profound and exquisite. It can also be…
My Wellness Journey
I have been interested in food and nutrition since I was a teenager. I used to watch The Food Network before it was cool. When I was in high school (16 years old) I developed an eating disorder: Anorexia. Being someone that is pretty aware of my body and myself, I realized early on that I…
Wellness, it’s not just about what you eat.
There is more and more research linking our gut health with brain health, but the path works both ways. My focus has always been WHOLE health. If you are anxious, or feel guilty, or sad, no amount of kale will necessarily help you be healthy. Here are some of my favorite practices in addition to…
“Home”
When we set out on #legerworldtour I had my work cut out for me. Not the packing and unpacking, not feeding, bathing, and entertaining three kids across the globe, I had more personal work in mind. I really wanted to become more flexible in my attitude and life, and what better way to work on…
Potty Training While Traveling
Life does not stop when you’re traveling and kids are a great reminder of that. When we left New York six months ago J and M were a head shorter (Jude’s knee length shorts now barely cover his thighs and some of Myla’s dresses can now be mistaken for shirts), and Sage had just started…
Six Months as a Global Nomad
A journey of a thousand miles starts off with a single step… Six months ago, we stepped out of our brownstone apartment in West Chelsea New York and set off on a journey to experience the world. I resigned from my job and we pared down all our belongings to 2 suitcases (and later further…
The Traveling Circus Thanksgiving Special Edition
Thanksgiving is our favorite American holiday. The best part of our family’s Thanksgiving tradition is not stuffing ourselves with Turkey until we can’t move anymore (well, most of us), rather it is going around the table and saying what we are thankful for. This year, we started out Thanksgiving day in Singapore, but as it…
Japan: The Land of the Rising Sun
I always wanted to visit Japan. Mystified by the proud and ancient culture, the clean and precise thinking and design and the amazing food. I was probably the most excited in the family to visit Japan, but after 10 days there I think we can easily say that we all loved it. Travel Day We…
Hong Kong
They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They took all the trees And put ’em in a…
Israel: Balagan, Sababa and Finding your Tribe
To understand Israel you need to understand some uniquely Israeli words and phrases: Balagan This word originated from Russian roots, but is now very much Israeli. It means chaos or fiasco and you encounter it as soon as you reach the passport line at Ben Gurion Airport. A record 3.6 million tourists visited Israel in…
Sababa
When we really got on the way with the Big Trip and started moving every week or so, we quickly grew exhausted. From that point on we spoke of our month (October) in Israel as a destination. We couldn’t wait to get there, settle down, and recoup after 3 months of galavanting around Europe with…
Tel Aviv Guide
Tel Aviv is a city full of contradictions: old and new, debilitated and ultra modern. We initially found it a bit difficult to get our bearings, find our tribes and nail down “our” go to places, but within a few days it all fell into place and most of the month was spent car-less, mainly…
Greece: Athens, Hydra, Paros and Mykonos
We arrived in Athens after a short flight from Dubrovnik and our first impressions were somewhat shady. The taxi driver opted to turn off the meter and negotiate a price and the streets looked as dirty and crowded as advertised although we did get a glimpse of the majestic Acropolis and Olympic Stadium at sunset. …
Dubrovnik
We left cool rainy Finland after 2 weeks, and within a few short hours we arrived in sunny and HOT Dubrovnik, Croatia. We took a taxi, with a somewhat loony driver to our Airbnb apartment. The driver ended up leaving us right outside the city gates, as cars are not permitted within the walls of…
Finland: Turku and Helsinki
When we planned The Big Trip we planned to spend August in Northern Europe. We were scared off of spending too much time in Copenhagen due to it being “extremely expensive”, we decided against venturing up to Norway and since we had been to Stockholm a couple of years ago we ended up spending the…
Tallinn, Estonia: Back in the USSR
I had mixed expectations of Tallinn. On the one hand I imagined a 21st century digitally advanced small city with futuristic technology. On the other hand I imagined the USSR of my parents: Soviet, but not too dirty or poor. The reality was somewhere in between. Despite all the Estonian efforts to eradicate them, Tallinn…
Cooking While Traveling
When you travel with kids, even for a short time, sometimes it’s easier to open a bottle of wine and cook at “home”. Ever since we had Sage and our little family became a big one (oddly enough with the addition of just one small kid), we have chosen to opt out of going to…
Malmö, Sweden: The Brooklyn of Copenhagen
We arrived in Malmo train station fresh from a week on Bornholm and a total of 10 days of swooning over Denmark. We followed google map navigation to our apartment and quickly noticed that we aren’t in Denmark anymore. Our path to our Airbnb apartment took us through a major street passing by a very…
Jude’s Entry: 50+ Days into the Big Trip
Today it is 50 days into the Big Trip. I am going to make some lists about it. Food: Best meal: Spaghetti Von Golgolay made by Mama in Sardinia Best desert: Strawberries and frozen bananas dipped in chocolate made by Mama, Myla and I in Malmo. Most fancy home meal: Home three course tasting menu…
Bornholm
“How did you find out about Bornholm?” has been the most common question we have been asked for the past week. The residents and seasonal residents and visitors of Bornholm enjoy keeping this secret paradise private and happy and I can’t say I blame them. Bornholm, a small island in the Baltic sea that is…
Copenhagen
Just when E and I were coming to terms with the idea that we no longer like cities, we came to Copenhagen. I’ve been talking about going to Scandinavia for years now. I don’t know what happened, but I have been feeling a pull to this part of the world. When I was pregnant with…
Good-bye to All That?
We are in Deia, Majorca, only a few steps away from the home of Robert Graves who left London for Majorca in 1929. In Deia he found “perfect tranquility”: “I chose Majorca as my home…because its climate had the reputation of being better than any other in Europe,” he wrote, “And because I was assured…
Deia, Mallorca
We’ve been in Deia for a bit over a week now, but I could easily stay here for a month, or all summer. The small town in the northern part of Mallorca is simply breath taking and I must thank my friend Kate for telling me about it. We are renting a perfect little house…
30 Days into the #LegerWorldTour
It’s very hard to believe that we have been “homeless” on our world tour for 30 days already. First 30 days, being Summer, have been more like a working vacation than real exploration of potential end points (although we already have votes for settling down in Sardinia or Deia), or true Nomadic life. But looking…
Plutonomy and the Growth of Mega Cities: Madrid
In a series of reports in 2005-06 Citigroup analysts discussed the idea of Plutonomy: a world which is no longer divided by national or geographic lines, but rather by economics. Thomas Piketty picked up on the same theme in his book Capital in the 21st Century and various follow up studies a decade later continue…
Sardegna
Two summers ago I was newly pregnant with Sage, and E and I had just planned our summer vacation. We were flying into Rome and out of Milan, and hoping to meet our Milanese friends somewhere along the way. We had about 9 days (one work week and two weekends on each end). Then our…
Farmers’ Markets
V’s love affair with Farmers’ Markets is beyond ordinary. Back in New York she visits the Union Square Farmers’ Market at least twice a week. She knows what the lambs had for their last supper and what the chickens ate the week before they laid the eggs she brings home. She knows exactly what is…
All roads lead to Rome?
First stop on #legerworldtour is Rome, Italy. We are only staying here for 8 nights and then flying to Sardinia to meet up with an Italian family who we are good friends with. Rome, how I love you and how you continue to change, and I wouldn’t say in a good way. We took an…
Family Gap Year: E’s Perspective
Our family has decided to take a family gap year and explore the world with a complete open mind and open to all possibilities including settling down in a new location for a short or long time period, embracing the Nomad Life, or coming back to America having had an amazing adventure. This step took…
Family Gap Year
Our family has decided to take a family gap year. What exactly is that you might ask. Basically, my husband and I and our 3 kids (ages; 8, 6, and 1) are going to travel around the globe for the next year in hopes of spending more quality time together, slowing down and minimizing our…