First couple of days back in the US for a while, for personal family-related matters
Travel
🏡 🇫🇷 Super excited to wake up to this article about our home and neighboring town in The Times today!

Greater Paris is born, reconfiguring the city. (…) The east (…) [side] has risen, turning the banlieue from Pantin to Romainville into cool, desirable areas. (…) The action is no longer on the Seine River — it is on a 200-year-old canal, the Ourcq.
Final holiday pics before getting back to work tomorrow: a well deserved break and staycation!
Our Parisian/home staycation continues…
Today started with a homemade brunch, before a visit to the Great Mosque of Paris, a delicious lunch, and a walk across town!
Stumbled upon the memorial of the November 13th, 2015 terrorist attacks — a stunning, well-designed square across City Hall
More holiday shenanigans
Vacation Day 03: 🧋☕️🍦
#CongCaPhe #Paris
Day 2 of our summer break ☀️🏞️🏙️
8/2/25
Went out to Musée de L’Homme for the exhibition on Wax Textile, and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in fashion, colonialism, ethnography, culture, and global trade.
Then had lunch at Schwartz’s Deli before enjoying the sight, and spending time with some of our friends living close to the Eiffel Tower on Rive Droite.
Day 1 of our summer break ☀️ 🍪 🥃 😘
8/1/25
Including delicious cookies and affogatos from Crème and a visit to the National Archives and seeing the official handwritten “Appeal of June 18th” from General Charles De Gaulle, which he broadcast on the BBC from London while in exile, on June 18th 1940, trying to inspire the French to resist their invaders.
Also: Happy International Spritz Day! Grateful that we have a lovely big Eataly here in Paris 🇮🇹
A lovely lovely weekend
My wife has been sharing some of our most personal cultural stories over on her newsletter

In a world of food fads, this is why the real French baguette reigns supreme | @monocle.com
Very wholesome afternoon with close friends at the #FondationLouisVuitton for the David #Hockney exhibition yesterday!
Last week’s shenanigans
7/7/25
The end to another eventful week and weekend…
- Pics 1-6: Beating the heatwave during a team dinner at Uma Nota, a delicious Brazilian/Japanese fusion place. Passionfruit Ceviche was mindblowing
- Pics 7-10: home life
- Pics 11-13: Streem food market for Le Food Market’s 10-year anniversary
- Pics 14-17: running errands around Rive Gauche
- Pics: 18-19: the Olympic Vask is back this summer. Felt emotional, proud, and nostalgic walking past it!
- Pic 20: singin’ in the rain
- Pic 21: home
Weekend Shenanigans
6/29/25
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Friend’s Birthday Party
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Cityscape
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Discovering a new spot for lunch
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A walk around the Jardins du Luxembourg
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Some more city adventures
A nice evening to catchup on Monocle’s latest issue, with a big section dedicated to the best cities for Quality of Life.
Especially delighted to see a quote from Jordane Giuly — with whom I worked during my Spendesk days— about how Paris has improved as a place for business, and especially for technology companies of all sizes. Even less surprising was seeing Lindsey’s name in a quote about how the city has changed over the years.
It’s something that I’ve noticed over the past decade, and part of the reason why I’ve been back living around Paris for the past 6 years. Great quality of life, great work life balance, and — unlike 10-15 years ago— much more welcoming to foreigners and non-francophone visitors than it’s ever been.
Respect the city and its inhabitants and it’ll pay dividends the next time you visit for pleasure or for business :)
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Day 22: hometown #mbjune
My hometown growing up, and the one I live in now.
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Day 21: silhouette #mbjune
One of my first ever pics taken and edited through VSCO. This takes me back to when I was living in Brighton, about 15 years ago (!) — which is where this pic is from.
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Day 11: brick #mbjune
Little brick lanes in Lille

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Day 10: rail #mbjune
Highlighting the Chương Dương Bridge in Hanoi from a trip in 2016!

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Day 9: wood #mbjune

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Day 8: travel #mbjune

The end to a lovely weekend
“Kyle Goon: The Baltimore ‘O!’ is about community pride. Don’t lecture us about it.”
We’re here, we’re proud of the place we live, and we want it to thrive. (…) The “O!” is a Baltimore thing. It’s a Maryland thing. It’s about a shared identity and community that we’re all rooting for, which is patriotic in and of itself.
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Very happy to be home 🏡 🛬
Food, it’s good!
Half day in Baltimore’s inner harbor and discovering Pratt Street Farmer’s Market for lunch (aka Charm City)
Day out to Washington DC: always like the architecture and being able to walk all around!
Local DC Bros are the worst, local city folks are the best!
3pm on a strip mall in the American suburbs is a helluva time 😳
Wonderful little day out to Annapolis, state capital of #Maryland, today :)
First few days of our holiday with the family in Maryland ☀️ 😊 🍔 🍗 🍺 🇺🇸