Until our most recent trip to Berlin, we’d never gone on a guided walking tour of a city – paid...
A dilemma of monumental proportions hit us a few days before Christmas. What the heck were we going to do...
Bigger isn’t always better, especially when it comes to Europe’s Christmas markets. The smaller villages in Germany offer fewer crowds...
In the US, our infatuation with pumpkins at Halloween borders on the religious. Long gone are the days when carving...
For chocolate lovers the world over, a visit to the Imhoff Schokoladenmusuem in Cologne just might be in order. The...
On the morning of July 14th, 1789, a crowd of angry townsfolk stormed the Bastille, a fortress that had stood...
One thing that always strikes me about Paris is that, like many of the larger cities in Europe, it’s flat...
