I’m sharing day 3 of or Paris Girl’s Weekend today. You can find Day 1 in Paris here and Day 2 in Paris here. Saturday we packed in lots of museums and started the day with my highlight, the Orangerie. Built to shelter the orange trees from the Tuilleries, the museum is most famous for …
Paris Girls Weekend Day 2
Day 2 of our girls weekend in Paris we spent the day shopping and eating well and ended the day altogether at the Louvre. This post contains affiliate links. Day 2 of our Paris girl’s trip was Friday morning, and possibly my favorite day of the whole trip. (more background on our girls trip and …
A new travel tradition
After getting back from Paris (here’s details about our girls weekend in Paris), here are my favorite audiobooks set in that beautiful city. Takeaway: Read books based in the country you’re visiting before you get there. There was nothing in particular I was looking to read when I went to download some audiobooks for the …
Paris Girls Weekend: Day 1
This recap of our weekend in Paris contains details of our itinerary and affiliate links. The first time I flew to Paris I was seventeen, just barely. My mom, best friend and I arrived off a red eye, early in the morning. We headed straight for the Louvre, with a quick stop for croc misueres …
Apple Picking + Honey Pot Orchards
The highlight so many b-school families talked about last year was the fall retreat – apple picking and a potluck at a professor’s home, a little outside of the city. And we missed it. I can’t remember why now. Maybe something up at my parents? It must have been. This year, though, we went. We …
A Weekend on Martha’s Vineyard
A small island off the coast of Massachusets, Martha’s Vineyard is quintessential New England charm at it’s finest. Originally inhabited by the Wampanoag people, it was named Martha’s Vineyard by the English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold after his mother-in-law or his daughter, both named Martha. The English began settlement of the island after it was purchased …