Hello! I’m Jodi, and I write about travel.

One of my favorite books when I was young was Betsy and the Great World by Maud Hart Lovelace. In it, Betsy Ray - an aspiring writer, spends a year traveling Europe so that she will eventually be able to write with first-hand knowledge of the places she visited. She writes multi-page letters home detailing every bit of her travels, starting on her ocean-liner trip over and ending at the outbreak of World War I - handwritten and so stuffed full of stories that they barely fit into their envelopes….

We communicate so differently now.

Like Betsy, I’ve spent much of the past two years slow-traveling through Europe, staying in cities for weeks or months at a time. I’ve seen so many beautiful things, and I have so many stories to tell.

And so I write letters…letters like Betsy sent: filled with stories, photographs, and details.

A few quick notes about me: I am a travel lover, and a lover of old books, art, antiques, museums, flea markets and libraries. I have a degree in art history - but I also have a degree in pastry arts…which is to say I also love food. Especially sweet food.

If you love these things, too, we might just be good friends.

What a subscription includes: letters from me on a regular basis from all over Europe. We’ll be like pen pals, except you don’t have to write me back.

If you choose to become a paid subscriber, you’ll get bi-monthly paid-only posts, as well as access to the entire archive.

To paraphrase Lucy Honeychurch, the heroine of one of my other favorite books, the world really is full of so many beautiful things.