Europe

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Prague, Czech Republic

October, 2025 Good King Wenceslas, Kafka, Iron Curtain, Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution, Hussites,...
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 Bratislava Slovakia

After World War I, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire began. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the United States played...
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Fussen

On our way, we stopped for lunch at a cute restaurant decorated Bavarian style –...
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What’s to Like and Not to Like in French Culture

May 2019 Cleanliness:  We always thought of Switzerland and Germany as the epitomes of outdoor...
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The Cathars – A Short History

The first battle of the Crusade against the Cathars occurred in Beziers, close to the...
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Brittany April 2023

Britany by Jean Luc Bannalec In January our friend Axel recommended we try a series...
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Aix-en-Provence

So we missed the Solar Eclipse.  Darn!  Oh well, we’ll catch the next one. 2044? ...
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Cruise through the Croatian Islands and Dubrovnik and Split

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A copy of Picasso's "Guernica" - the original is at MOMA in NYC

The Basque Country February 12, 2014

We stopped in Biarritz, France on our way to San Sebastian, Spain.  Both towns lie...
The front of the musuem with eggs, sculptures and a 3 ball loaf of bread motif (the gold objects represent the three capitals of Catalonia - Barcelona, Figures and Giron.

Meeting Dali –Figueres Spain  January, 2014

Spain lies on the Mediterannean just south of the French border. It’s the birthplace of...