I, Matt, have Celiac Disease, and need to eat strictly gluten free. But I also love food. When we started talking about a trip to London, I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. Fish and chips? Hand pies? It didn’t sound particularly promising for gluten free food. However, I was quickly proven wrong. London is…
There aren’t a whole lot of places in the world where you can walk by a column that was completed in 113 A.D on your way to a massive amphitheater that was built almost two millennia ago. The preserved history that exists in Rome is one reason why the Eternal City is consistently in the…
Paris was one of my (Matt here, the resident French speaker in this corner of the internet!) first international travel experiences after I graduated from college and left the US for the first time in my life. I took French for seven years in school, and I was incredibly excited to put it to good…
Ah, Roma. Rome is a city full of so much history and culture that it makes its way onto nearly everyone’s bucket list. The challenge with Rome, and it’s one that we’ve heard over and over again, is that there is so much to do and see within the boundaries of the city that planning…
The Oregon Coast is one of the most gorgeous parts of the Pacific Northwest, and that’s saying something considering the Northwest is full of incredible natural beauty. Huge groves of towering sitka spruce trees, a coastline of beaches that oscillate between wide and sandy and rocky and full of sea stacks, and plenty of great…
There is a surprising amount of American history (not to mention Oregonian history) that took place in Astoria, Oregon. Before our latest trip, we had no idea that it was an important – and very much contested – player in the fur trade that drove the War of 1812, and that it’s home to the…