Gretchen Strauch
@fetchen.bsky.social
I probably shouldn’t be awake right now
Editor • ricksteves.com
Editor • ricksteves.com
I feel bad about reposting this
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I feel bad about reposting this
Nice work, Seattle 🇺🇸❤️
October 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Nice work, Seattle 🇺🇸❤️
Omg guess what I found on my desk this morning
September 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Omg guess what I found on my desk this morning
Hey 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!
June 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Hey 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!
My 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
December 18, 2024 at 9:44 PM
My 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
No joke: this came up (I’ve saved it for frequent use and I love it so much)
October 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
No joke: this came up (I’ve saved it for frequent use and I love it so much)
For 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
October 9, 2024 at 2:55 AM
For 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
![While the sailboat, the Amidala, did not sink, pods of orcas have sunken several vessels in recent years. [excerpt from NYTimes article]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:etyjigbm5tcilvvun74vlfcl/bafkreif4x2222d3sgd4xt6uzpkg44bj5vbdivheb4fwevntkn6jeg43l4u@jpeg)
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July 10, 2024 at 4:40 AM
CALL CONGRESS
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Congrats, 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)
April 16, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Congrats, 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)
I 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
February 17, 2024 at 10:06 PM
I 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
Few days go by before I have cause to think of this one yet again i.kym-cdn.com/photos/image...
February 8, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Few days go by before I have cause to think of this one yet again i.kym-cdn.com/photos/image...
Recent exchange with best friend
January 17, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Recent exchange with best friend
October 13, 2023 at 5:52 AM
