Question: What do you do with a travel blog when you’re not traveling? Answer: Re-define the word travel. There are many kinds of journeys, and it’s a rare day when I don’t go somewhere – to the market, to the … Read More →

Yesterday’s post was short due to a fading laptop battery. Now that I am recharged and have paid the big bucks at the Hilton for some internet time, I want to write a little more about Budapest. Yes, we are … Read More →

Last Wednesday night, in Vienna, we attended a Mozart and Strauss chamber concert. The musicians, singers and dancers were sublime. The concert master, a renowned violinist with a Stradivarius under his chin, stood in front of the musicians to conduct … Read More →

Last Friday we woke to fog shrouded windows and beyond them, to frost on the rooftops of Fussen. Later, as we drove north along the Romantic Road, the outside temperature registered -.5 degrees. Frost covered the trees and fields, but … Read More →

Hohenschwangau The life of Ludwig II of Bavaria was enchanted, tragic and bizarre. It would make a great opera (he was fond of Wagner), and for all I know someone has already written it. We took guided tours of two … Read More →

Black Forest Next on our agenda was a drive through the Black Forest. I shall skim over the confusing, frenetic drive through crowded, trafficky Baden-Baden in search of a way OUT, and tell you that the Black Forest is lovely … Read More →

Charlemagne’s Casket Charlemagne was buried several times. Once in a Roman marble sarcophagus; once, apparently, sitting bolt upright in a magnificent underground chamber that was opened in the year A.D. 1000 and has yet to be re-discovered; and finally in … Read More →

Posting the last two nights was difficult due to poor internet connection. So there will be two posts tonight. Copenhagen to Hamburg by train took roughly 6 ½ hours. Did you know that they put the entire train on the … Read More →