December 24, 2025
Tag: solotravel
June 12, 2025
Hamburg 2023
From Northeim and Göttingen, I came full sail into the Hanseatic port city and made a beeline for the Speicherstadt. No Deutsche Bahn mishaps this time!
May 18, 2025
Northeim 2023
A trip that had begun so well with a sublime truffle tortellini at 35,000 feet was rapidly dissolving into a properly Grimm misadventure.
January 23, 2025
The Case of The Bookworm and The Travel Bug: Istanbul 2022
The Mysterious Mannequin was the first Nancy Drew story my mother had given me. It had a bright yellow spine, a cover intriguing enough for the exotic tale of Istanbul it spun, a disappearance in the Grand Bazaar and a confrontation in the Basilica Cistern, messages concealed in a carpet, and throwaway descriptions of baklava and moussaka within.
August 5, 2019