In brief: The bountiful Kakheti region is not just sloshing in wine, the major product now. It’s overflowing with secular and religious history as well. The last major region we aimed to see in the…
Entrance, Teatro São Luiz The theatre is not dead - at least not the Teatro São Luiz. Built for royalty to enjoy, it endured through the end of the monarchy and still welcomed the best…
Peace, liberty, the future…celebrators and demonstrators - directly acting on their right to express their views - repeated these themes during Portugal's country-wide celebration of its liberation from the dictatorship of Salazar's fascist regime. On…
In brief: On a short but busy return visit to Vienna, we found a city even more beautiful and interesting than ever. It was a quick trip to Vienna to visit with my son to…
We traveled by bus to the north of Portugal at the edge of the border with Spain, a hilly region called Minho. Minho is well known for its special “green” wine, the Vinho Verde, as…
It’s no wonder that those who want a balance between city and country life find Viana do Castelo so welcoming in northern Portugal. It’s a town of 85000 people at the heart of the Minho…
Allis Ubbo, Olissipo, Olisipona, Al-Usbuma, Lixboa, Lisboa…each of these names for Lisbon represents a different period of occupation: Phoenicians, Romans, early Christians, Moors, later Christians, Pombaline. Entering NARC and millennia past And each period can…
“Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen,” sang Hans Christian Andersen about the 19th century town in the old film. And he didn’t even see the modern Danish design and the sleek metro, as we did - returning to…
Forget the modern city of Copenhagen for a moment. Let its sleek trains transport you some 800 years back in time and into the countryside. Yes, the coffee shops, markets, and housing of Helsingør and…
Greenland is supposed to be the snowy icy sister to Iceland. Its ice sheet covers 80% of its huge land surface! And only 50,000 people reside along thousands of kilometers of coastline. For sure, each…