Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Imagine being so thick you think this analogy holds up 000
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Dangler blindness mystifies me—why is it so common? How many people read this sign before it was installed, recently, at a beautiful overlook near my office? Has to have been at least…five? Been giving it the stink-eye ever since it showed up: 020
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026People can be pretty great sometimes wapo.st/4q8iFsE (gift link) 012
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I was up the middle tower (Jin Mao) in 2009, when it was the second tallest in Lujiazui. It would be absolutely amazing to go back there now 140
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Hey Jamelle—one of Rick’s guidebook editor/researchers here—waking up to this post just as I’m finishing leading a Rick Steves tour through the Alps is even better than seeing Mont Blanc at sunrise. The stanning is mutual! 0300
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024My uncle’s idle email asking me whether his classical-music-station DJ had mispronounced “Tannhäuser” led to a three-page answer and the making of this, which no one wanted, yet my brain insisted on it 020
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 10/10/2024No joke: this came up (I’ve saved it for frequent use and I love it so much) 020
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 09/10/2024For work reasons I stay in (and check guidebook listings of) many, many European hotel rooms and this one in Montreux—in a fancy place with a wrought-iron balcony overlooking Lake Geneva—will never leave my memory 040
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 16/04/2024Congrats, Mark! (Also, you beat by Tuesday best by more than 1:30.) Are you planning on stopping now? (Please tell me how one does that) 000
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 17/02/2024I had this exact watch, and I LOVED it. I especially loved how much it resembled the clocks in Swiss train stations. The one I have now was the closest thing I could find, last time I needed a new watch—still like it, but miss the old one 000
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Few days go by before I have cause to think of this one yet again i.kym-cdn.com/photos/image... 000
Gretchen Strauch @fetchen.bsky.social · 13/10/2023This probably hasn’t been the best use of my time (I blame @rianjohnson.bsky.social ) 000
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