While in Paris, we had the time and opportunity to wander through museums with our drawing pads and colored pencils, trying our hand at imitating the Masters. See if you can guess which family member drew which sketch below (clockwise from top left). [UPDATE: The answer to “who drew what” can be found in the comments […]
ON THE HOME FRONT: A FRIEND IN NEED
Even though we’ve been away from home for ten months, the internet keeps us tethered to our once and future lives. Back in Los Angeles, the community of our children’s school is the center of our family’s life. Westland School is a remarkable place and its progressive educational philosophy was one of the inspirations for […]
KINDRED SPIRITS
What kind of family would abandon their lives to discover the world? Well, it turns out that at any given moment, there are actually hundreds of families doing just that. We hear occasional stories about other families that are out on the road — and early in our journey, we would glance at other blogs […]
REAL ESTATE PORN: OUR APARTMENT IN PARIS
We’ve slept on the wooden floors of floating houses in Cambodia, shared cramped hotel rooms in Peru, shivered in freezing tents in the Sahara, and slept four to a train compartment in China. But for one month, we traded the lives of Nomads for the lives of Parisians. And what an incredible place in Paris […]
WE HAVE FUN TOGETHER
What does it mean to be “lifelong friends”? Well, Franny, Finn, Charlie and Sam bring literal meaning to the phrase. They met one another within 48 hours of each other’s birth — a consequence of the close friendship of their parents, Mark, Jen, P.K. and Beth. Now half a generation later, the Flackett-Levin family is […]
PORTRAIT BY THE ARTIST OF A YOUNG MAN
In Montmartre, Paris, a work of art springs to life from a blank page, and the process is captured in a single uninterrupted shot.
BUDA / PEST
Here’s what you have to know about these two cities spilt by the Danube: Buda is home to castles, museums, and rich history. Pest is home to bookstores, bars, hotels, and coffee shops. In other words, Buda is a nice place to visit, but we’d want to live in Pest. And truth be told, Budapest […]
HOME COOKING IN VIENNA
There’s nothing like cooking at home with friends. Even if the home is rented through airbnb and the friends are brand new. The feeling of making your own food and sharing it around your own table and laughing is one of the best in the world.
FOUR THOUSAND PHOTOS OF PRAGUE
If a picture is worth a thousand words, please enjoy these four million words about the great Czech capital wrapped up in a neat little four minute package.
EVERYTHING WE WILL MISS ABOUT TEL AVIV
It’s a funny thing about Tel Aviv. It’s probably one of the most livable cities in the world. Right up there with Sydney, or Paris, or Shanghai (on a rare clear day). But whenever people come home from Israel, they’re talking about the complex history of Jerusalem, or the pulsating politics of the country, or […]