Jeffrey L Cohen

Sometimes I keep money at the end of a foreign trip, rather than spend it all at the airport. Especially if it is a country that I will return to. I went into

An election is coming up in Brussels so there are candidate posters everywhere. The design of all the posters are similar. They feature a headshot of the candidate cropped the same way. Their

Looking in the windows of a building as we passed by on the tram it was hard to tell if it was a restaurant or a store selling well-designed chairs.

Every time I hear a European siren I think I’m in a foreign film. The whoop whoop sound is so iconic, but so unlike anything in the US, that it triggers memories

As my Uber driver offered to put my suitcase in the trunk, he said, no obligation. I’m not sure what he meant. Was he saying that I didn’t need to tip