I don’t think anything could have adequately prepared me for Fez. Not really. “Sensory overload” doesn’t begin to really capture what it was to walk those serpentine alleyways.

One of the big cultural differences we’ve been exploring is the relationship to personal space – both in terms of personal proximity and in the relationship to public and private…

We’re on a bus again, this one bound for our hotel just outside Gibraltar. It’s sunset (a beautiful one), and the bus is pretty quiet, which makes sense given that…

Ok, so we didn’t actually take shots of olive oil, at least in the sense of downing them quickly. We did take pictures. And we did have to drink it.…

At this point in my life and travels, I’ve been in a lot of cathedrals. Notre Dame, the Vatican, St. Paul’s in London… basically every major cathedral in more than…

We’re on a bus on our way to Córdoba (a three hour drive from Granada), and though I’m writing from my phone, it seems as good a time as any…

Technically, I am awake. That seems obvious, even if it doesn’t exactly feel true. It’s day… 3? of our trip to Spain (and later Morocco), we’re in Granada, and although…

I’ve been fighting off a cold for about five days now. I can’t blame it completely on my night at the Ice Hotel – more likely, it’s the combination of many…

Until the past couple of days, I hadn’t truly realized how much of this trip was contingent on nature cooperating. Overall, we’ve had outstanding luck. Admittedly, our photo tour of…

Light is a pretty big deal in Scandinavia. With its scarcity in winter and abundance in summer, the light here is much more a part of the culture and daily living…