Until our most recent trip to Berlin, we’d never gone on a guided walking tour of a city – paid or free. When we’ve gone on other kinds of guided tours, we’re always the slowest in the bunch, hanging back...
Legend tells that in the year 968, a knight was hunting deer in the forests of Rammelsberg, a peak in the Harz Mountains. Stopping for a rest, he tied his horse to a tree. Restless, the horse pawed at the...
Ok, we get it. Some of you loyal readers are perhaps getting a bit tired of seeing our posts about one German castle after another. But we ask you to bear with us for one more castle – just one...
Travis and I spent our last evening in Paris with friends from the US and one very special lady – La dame de fer, “The Lady of Iron.” As the most visited paid monument in the world, the Eiffel Tower...
We ended our first day in Paris with the biggest splurge of our entire trip – a luxury dinner cruise on the Seine River. Our friends had rather brilliantly proposed the idea before our trip, offering to scout around online...
Cradled in a valley near the town of Sinaia lies Peleș Castle, the crown jewel of Romania. Originally designed as a royal palace for Romania’s King Carol I and his wife, Queen Elisabeth of Wied, it’s relatively young for a...
In 1819, chocolatier François-Louis Cailler founded Switzerland’s oldest chocolate company, the Maison Cailler chocolate factory. While non-Swiss folks might not have heard of it, they’ve most certainly heard of the food giant, Nestlé, which is named after another Swiss founder,...
