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When It Rains, It Pours Keeping your clothes dry is important at home where you have access to a washer and dryer and a closet…
The Namesake of the Cheese in Noord Holland L&A HQ is located in America’s Dairyland, and we eat our (more than) fair share of cheese.…
Travel Tip #28: Pack a Swimsuit I enjoy swimming. Not the lap swimming you see at the Y or the kind that requires deep concentration.…
Hidden Church near Amsterdam’s Red Light District The Dutch government has a history of tolerance. Take a few steps from Centraal Station and smell the marijuana…
Old-Fashioned Drive-In Movie Theater In Jefferson Thirty miles east of Madison, just outside of Jefferson, lies a place that will take you back to a…
The perfect Summer (or Spring or Fall) Day in Madison So you are in Madison for a day and the weather is just too gorgeous…
Hotel Tip #4 Beware of Hotel Cancellation Policies. Most major hotels do not charge you until you check out and will allow you to cancel…
Canoe Trip In Waupaca, Wisconsin Between Stevens Point and Appleton, just off of US 10 lies a slice of paradise in Waupaca: 22 spring-fed lakes…
Eight Hours in the Brew City Whenever L&A goes to a city, we head for their art museum and brewery. To my knowledge, these do…
Biking and Beer in Lake Mills, Wisconsin One of the best things about living in Wisconsin is that the state is crisscrossed with bike trails…
Twenty Hours in Norway’s Capital City Olso is pretty far north and in the summer that means it gets late well, late. This is no…
Delicious Food in Central Amsterdam When you head to Leidseplein Square in central Amsterdam to see a band at Milkweg or some comedy at Boom…
Tiptoe Through the Tulips on this Day Trip from Amsterdam The Dutch are very keen on horticulture. After windmills, when people think of the Netherlands,…
Cheese Shop in Amsterdam’s 9 Streets After spending a morning shopping the impossibly cute shops in Amsterdam’s 9 Streets , you are probably starving. It takes…
Breakfast Fare To Go In Central Amsterdam The only think worse than airport food is airplane food (well, possibly public school lunches). Airport food is…
Charcoal Grill in Madrid Growing up in Appleton, Wisconsin, we had a restaurant with a charcoal grill called Mr. Cinders. It was on the other…
Hands-On Science in San Francisco The scene in So I Married an Axe Murderer where Mike Myers and Nancy Travis are walking near a lagoon…
Two Parks in Western Madrid Madrid is hot. Spain is hot. Folks will tell you it is a dry heat, so that means if you…
Links We Love: Vol 23 Here’s a drool worthy write-up of one of our favorite restaurants in Madison – The Old Fashioned . Cool Maps…