Travels with Tricia

Category: Outdoors

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Two women stroll along a lane in Paris' Père Lachaise Cemetery. On either side of the lane there are grey mauseoleums. The street is partially covered with brown autumn leaves.

    If Headstones Could Talk: Pondering at Paris’ Père-Lachaise Cemetery

    I had long wanted to visit Paris’ storied Père-Lachaise Cemetery. However, during past jaunts to the ‘City of Lights,’ the Eiffel Tower, Champs Elysées, and Notre Dame had taken center stage on my itinerary. During our most recent trip to Paris, our hotel in Paris’ 11th arrondissement was a short walk from the cemetery. With…