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Surprise last week Piggy wasn’t at London Bridge. She was at the Tower Bridge that goes to the Tower of London. Congratulations to Rachel Kahn, Nanny & Poppa, Sam and Antony Sofianos, Abbie Fox and Emily Bendremer. And for last last week, the answer was the North Face of the Eiger mountain. For that, Beth […]

My cousins Laura and Eleanor and their family were staying in London with us. Laura had been saying that she wanted to go on a Double Decker bus, so Mom and Grandma talked to the concierge and soon we had our own. We didn’t believe we had our own Double Decker bus at first, but they […]

We are now visiting Wengen, a village perched partway up the slopes of the Swiss Alps, where there are no automobiles.  The only ways in are cog-rail, cablecar, or by foot.  Why here?  My family had visited Wengen when I was 17 years old and it made a lasting impact.  Now I wanted my children […]

Today my family went to a re-created Viking village! My parents gave each child two silver coins that we could use to do paid-for activities. We entered the village and looked around. There was a big fire on a low altar of sorts, a dozen or so shacks, a long house, and a training ground. […]

After a 90 minute tarmac flight delay in Munich and an endless wait for baggage handling, we finally made it out of the Copenhagen airport late in the night (so late it was dark even in summer when they get 19 hours of sunlight!). Our bleary eyes could not miss this sign though. It seems […]

“Ouch!” I yelled. The cowboy/horse guide had pricked me with the buckle of the leather chaps he was putting on my legs. We were at a ranch, ready to go horse-back riding for 2 hours. We all got chaps and helmets. We walked to where the horses were and something hit me. No it was […]

Today was our first true day in Istanbul.  Upon waking up, we had breakfast and returned to our room to get ready for a scavenger hunt!  Dad went to the front desk and came back with two envelopes.  The first envelope had a strange puzzle, a map and a cell phone. In the second envelope […]

Olympia is on the west coast of Greece favored by plentiful water and flat land.  The rocky east side was so inhospitable that the major cities there such as Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Argos quickly developed seamanship and trade and exchange of knowledge with the advanced Eastern civilizations.  The green western part was quiet farming […]

  Food is one of the very best ways to discover a new place and we had the finest introduction imaginable on our first day in Athens as guests of our guide Antony and his wife Sam.  The morning began with a trip to the local produce market where we saw fruits and vegetables of […]

At 2:51pm on Wednesday June 30, we left our home in Natick in a borrowed car and journeyed all the way to… Newton.  Surely the first day out of the house must be reserved for grandparents!  Having seen Gina’s parents during June, we made it a trifecta.  The kids played games the rest of the day with a happy […]