Posts Tagged with ‘Travel Reports’
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Touring Italy In Books
23 Sep 2016Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction,…
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Walking the Sierras, One Millennium at a Time
17 Aug 2015As a kid, like many other kids, I was fascinated by time travel. And perplexed. If I could go back…
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Lakes Basin, Sierra Nevada, CA
12 Aug 2015Besides reading and pondering on the human history that got us here, I sometimes wander the really deep history —…
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Franz Kafka: Lost in Prague and finding “Lost in America”
20 Jun 2014The best way to get a city, for me, is to put away the maps and follow promising promenades and…
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Walking Vienna
12 Jun 2014Vienna, the Imperial heart of the long lived Hapsburg dynasty (1278 to 1918,) unbreakable bulwark against the Ottoman advance,…
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Reading Vienna
08 Jun 2014In the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I…
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Vienna’s Premier Museum, the Kunsthistorisches, One of the Wonders of the World
05 Jun 2014As to museums, I’d often rather be outside, in nature’s own “place of study.” But I go, slowly filling my…
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Coastal Croatia – War Wounds Healing, Sea, Salt Air and Sun
31 May 2014So now we’re in Croatia, a country I never thought I’d be in. Not that I thought “I will never go,”…
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Poking Around Prague
24 May 2014The weather continues inhospitable as we arrive in Prague, mid-May, after 10 hours on the night train from Amsterdam. Now…
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Reading Prague
22 May 2014Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable…
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Jumping Puddles and Onrushing Bikes in Amsterdam
17 May 2014It’s said that we travel to open our eyes, stretch our minds. I wouldn’t have thought this to include adjusting…
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Canal Reading — In Amsterdam
13 May 2014The rain is pelting down as as I take my first steps around Amsterdam, the Venice of the North as some…