Zosia wanted to see the place where she was born and Dominik had work to attend to at the research institute there where he’s worked for lots of years, so we packed up eight pairs of skis and took a 7 hour train trip from Chamonix to Davos, Switzerland. Through the five train transfers, Dominik … More Back to Davos

Hi! Happy Winter, Happy New Year! Winter came early to Chamonix with some big dumps of snow in November. We spent most of the month of December sick with various colds and flus but came out of it just in time to celebrate Christmas with a tree our landlord brought to us and to start skiing when the … More Early Winter Days

Dominik got invited to give a talk at the University of Ljubljana so we packed up our Halloween costumes and spent Halloween week in Slovenia. A colleague of Dominik’s hosted us and put us up in a visiting professor’s apartment on campus. We got savvy with the Ljubljana city bus system and found probably the … More Slovenia!

We just finished SIX weeks of school today and whew, it’s been a rollllllller coaster. This is a pic of the girls in front of the school. A family owns the building and lives in the left side of it and donated the right half to the school. Kamila’s class is on the lower floor, … More School Days

A week before school started (more on that, soon!) we hopped in a tiny rental car and drove 7 hours on some verrrry windy roads to Provence and the little town of Palud Sur Verdon (population 340). Our home for the week was a 400 year old stone farmhouse with a big walled in garden … More To Provence

Poland was food. Lots of good, yummy, yummy food. Plates of pickled herring, bowls of cold beet soup, blueberry and strawberry perogies, and paczki! Poland was family, Warsaw, cobblestone streets of the Old Town, magnificent city parks and playgrounds, hearing Chopin music at the Chopin Memorial at Lazienki Park, fountains, and meeting up with old … More Poland!

We secured our apartment sight unseen, about four months before we arrived in France. We chose from three options available in the town and have been happy with the choice. Here’s a little tour:

Hi! We made it! We are just about a month in and have done all the important things: set up our apartment, gotten library cards and pool passes, learned how and where to grocery shop after eating mostly pasta for a week, watched the World Cup Rock Climbing competition, scoped out all the bulletin boards … More Settling In, French Hospitals, and The Tour