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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 a…

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 of Papua New…

Delicious Sandwich Shop in Central Amsterdam When I was a kid, I came home for lunch every day. I did this all throughout elementary school.…

San Francisco’s Piers Offer Something for Everyone And we mean everyone. With all there is to do here, Fisherman’s Wharf is jam-packed with shoppers, diners,…

Travel gear for every destination – at Design Sponge Don’t miss these – at Landlopers Google’s April Fools joke is pretty hilarious: http://youtu.be/rznYifPHxDg (P.S. Don’t miss…

Go Dutch And See The City On Two Wheels When you get off the train at Centraal, the first thing you see is bicycles. Kids…

Spain’s Royal Palace In Western Madrid No trip to Europe would be complete without a visit to at least one palace. Visiting these larger-than-life residences…

Presidio is Spanish for “Fort” After you take the Cable Car from Union Square to Fisherman’s Wharf with a throng of tourists, you may be disappointed with…

The Cutest Hotel In Amsterdam Ok, there isn’t an official ballot, but if there ever is, our money would be on t’Hotel. While you are walking…

The Story Begins When The Amstel Was Dammed… The Amsterdam Museum should be your first stop on your first visit to Amsterdam. (Note — if you…

Small Restaurant, Big Pancakes Yes, we know it shows up in all of the guidebooks but that should not scare you away. Pannenkoekenhuis Upstairs is…

Anglophone’s Paradise in Central Amsterdam Towards the end of your trip to Amsterdam, after a couple of long layovers and train rides, you suddenly find…

Sevilla’s Royal Palace is One-of-a-Kind Forget everything you know about Royal Palaces. Good. The Alcazar of Sevilla is unlike any palace you have been to…

“Let a church so beautiful and so great that those who see it built will think we were mad”. With those words, construction on the…

Can you feel it? Spring is in the air! Just thinking about it makes us daydream about Cinque Terre, Italy. Here are some wallpapers to…