Here in Europe it’s branded as No Tyrants rather than No Kings, but Toulouse, France, got into the spirit of the day…

Got a DC crime emergency here — standing on the left on a Metro escalator.

I mean it’s Belgium what was I supposed to do

My lovely mom would have been 99 today. Still miss her.

There’s something so calming about wintertime flora.

Across the Ardennes Forest region of Luxembourg, Belgium and France, communities commemorate the start of the Battle of the Bulge, 80 years ago next week. My dad was there. It’s fading from living memory, but local people still stage memorials to Americans who served. They thank us; we thank them.

I don’t know how I was unaware that there is a little Victorian-era apiary in the Luxembourg Gardens, but there you have it.

Despite some grumbling about the planned presence of a ‘personage vulgaire’ at such an august national occasion, many French thought President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to Trump was smart, pragmatic diplomacy. ‘Our president is preserving the relationship,’ one Paris pensioner told me.

In advance of Notre Dame’s reopening, French newspapers reminisced about Trump’s real-time suggestion during the devastating 2019 fire that ‘flying water tankers’ be used to douse the flames. Experts said that would have risked a total collapse.

Five years after fire ravaged the medieval masterpiece, Notre Dame is set for this weekend’s grand reopening. President-elect Trump is among the VIP invitees.

Even from a safe distance, Iceland’s current ‘small’ volcanic eruption is impressive…but authorities say tourists often try to get too close