September 5th, 2017

The Difference Between Vacationing and Living

Whenever I go on vacation, I find myself wondering if I should live there. I definitely contemplated it when I went to Anguilla last winter. Why return to snowy New York?, I thought. Anguilla has everything I need.

Traveling with We Roam has allowed me to test this idea. While a month isn’t long enough to experience [Read More]

July 31st, 2017

What to Do in Neukölln

One of the things I enjoy about We Roam is that we stay in apartments, which means our housing is outside the main tourist area. Not only does this give you a sense of what it’s really like to live as a local, it lets you explore a completely different area of the city–especially key [Read More]

July 17th, 2017

Berlin’s Many, Many Museums

When I started researching things to do in Berlin, I was awestruck by the number of museums. I haven’t done the tallies, but it rivals (possibly surpasses?) New York in terms of sheer quantity.  My mom came to visit last week, and since she’s an art historian, we decided to tackle as many as we could.

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July 11th, 2017

You Can Skip the Berlin Flea Markets

Most of the time on this blog, I’m extolling the wonders of some place or another, adding another line item to your must-see travel list. But since we all have limited time and money, I think it’s equally important to tell you when something isn’t worth your finite resources–and in my humble opinion, the flea markets of Berlin [Read More]

July 3rd, 2017

Hallo, Berlin!!!

I’m not just being lazy with my post title here; they really do say hallo, and it’s a mercy because every other German word is beyond me. But language struggles aside, we’ve been here two days, and I’m a little obsessed with Berlin. 

I was definitely ready to leave Prague. It has its highlights [Read More]