Europe

I’ve been staring at a blank page trying to think of where to start on this blog. Or whether I should even write it. I’ve [Read More…]

Poles have been digging up precious metals and gems for centuries. Theirs is a mining country. In the 13th century, they discovered salt in the [Read More…]

Those UNESCO people really know what they’re talking about. After observing that so many of the places we have been visiting—and loving—lately (Split, Dubrovnik, Kotor) [Read More…]

We love libraries. We love everything about them: the smell of the books, the storehouse of knowledge, the quietness, the understated majesty and mystique of [Read More…]

If the number of tears-of-laughter inducing videos of cats doing crazy things on YouTube and Facebook are any indication, humans love their feline friends. We’re [Read More…]

There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being immersed in hot water with your head sticking up into frigidly cold air. We discovered this a few years [Read More…]

I’ve wound up in a “live blogging” mode where I wake up and realize a new blog is due out and I have to whip [Read More…]

Vienna is practically packed with two things: sausages and palaces. The famed Vienna sausages are an expensive delicacy here, so enjoy their mass-produced fatty-jellied goodness [Read More…]

Had you asked us to describe what we expected of Vienna before we visited, we probably would have said: culture and elegance. Now that we [Read More…]