paris, je t'aime!

we woke up this morning in the most adorable teeny tiny 3rd floor flat in the marais and i still can't quite believe this is real life. we got a bit of wandering in last night, and once i figure out how to cook us some breakfast in the world's smallest kitchen, we're headed off to see what we can see (and eat and drink everything along the way).

a few pics from last night's beautiful sunset along the seine. pinch me.

europe: one week in

so we've officially been on the road for one week today, and have checked london and two places in germany off our list. right now, we're in heidelberg, which is where i went to high school, and it's been so fun to walk down memory lane here! we are packing up this morning and heading to the train  station - next on our list, paris! can't wait to get there. i fully intend on doing more in-depth recap posts for each of our stops, but with spotty internet and temperatures in the 90s (while staying in an air conditioner-less apartment), my heart and attention span just aren't in it quite yet. for now, a few pics to tide us over.

(note how we've really upped our selfie game from london to heidelberg. i think we'll really crush some paris selfies...)

trafalgar square

the few minutes of sun we had in london

big ben!

blake's first german summer beer

the castle in heidelberg (where i had my prom!)

did you see the castle? it's right there.

i'll take you to foggy london town

hello from across the pond! we arrived in london yesterday morning after an emotionally-fraught (for some of us) farewell to nyc. after a quick nap and shower at our home base in notting hill, we headed out on foot to explore!

it was mostly foggy and drizzly (obviously), but we got a few peeks of sun. we covered most of notting hill, kensington gardens, hyde park, and then finished the night with a turkish meal in marylebone. excited for day two with more than four hours of sleep under our belts.

goodbye to all that

"I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later — because I did not belong there, did not come from there — but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month." 

Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That"