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Snails, Wild Boar & Fairy Tales: Hiking in Heidelberg’s Enchanting Forest
The forested hills cradling Heidelberg’s Old Town have been one of my favorite settings in which to explore and escape for the past decade. Before I met my husband, Shawn, I often made the ascent there independently to ponder life goals or jot hand-written letters to family and friends. Sometimes, I’d take friends or my…
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France’s Magnificent Mont-Saint-Michel
Mont-Saint-Michel… Ever since high school French class, this name has brought to mind images of a majestic abbey cloaked in fog, of tides ever-shifting around its formidable mountain base, and of crashing waves. Over the Labor Day weekend, Shawn and I traveled four hours west of Paris to see this legendary 1,100-year-old abbey. Our first…
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Photo du Jour: Happy in Marrakech, Morocco
These faces of Marrakech, Morocco make me smile. Whether playing soccer on the dusty labyrinthine backroads of this so-called “Pink City,” working in a sun-drenched herb market, or shuttling bread dough atop their heads to take to a communal oven, the young men’s faces exude happiness.





