6 January 2025 Europe has really good passenger protections when it comes to disrupted trains, resulting in healthy refunds of train...

2 August 2024 Knowing how crowded Parisian pools are, I actively sought out 33M or 50M pools when I was in town for the first week of the...

21 August 2024 Not planes, trains and automobiles, but my feet, metro and the "Wiener-mobile" ... (Transit modes through Brussels - click...

1 August 2024 The city of Paris (and Lille, Nanterre, St.-Denis, etc.) put on a fantastic show for the 2024 Olympics. I went to Paris...

31 July 2024 After a Wednesday morning watching beach volleyball at probably the coolest sports venue I have ever been to ... ... I took...

30 July 2024 I firmly believe the 400 Individual Medley is far and away both the most fun event to race and the most fun event to watch...

3 August 2024 I almost had a €200 lap swimming session this morning at Piscine Keller, on the western edge of Paris, a stone’s throw from...

27 July 2024 The Swim in Paris plan from the mid-2010 period aimed to: Improve and modernize Parisian swimming pools Create new pools to...

09 July 2024 I had an exceedingly busy three-day business trip up to Brussels this past week that left very little time to do much in the...

5 July 2023 Eindrucksvoll und exzellent! After two days in crowded pools, I was very much hoping that this outdoor schwimmbad about...