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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…