The holidays are upon us and I find myself searching for activities for the kid that will provide him some education and something to do. Saturday: Christmas Walk At the Central West End The Central West End in St. Louis does a Christmas Walk on the first Saturdays in December. So we picked a warm weekend and bundled up the kid and decided to explore…
Bratislava is about an hour from Vienna and is worth checking out with its fun street sculptures, upside down pyramid building and what has been nicknamed the Soviet’s UFO Bridge. The major sites can be walked to from the central part of the city. Bratislava Highlights: St. Martin’s Cathedral It is one of the largest and oldest churches in the city. It used to serve…
My husband will be doing a conference in Gottingen and I plan to take the Intercity Express (ICE), a high-speed train to Berlin for the day. It looks like I can get from Gottingen to Berlin in about 2.5 hours. If I leave at 8 am I should be arriving around 1030 am. Since I remember the 1980s and the Berlin Wall coming down I…
We will have about three days in Dublin in June of 2019, not a lot of time. Yet, there are a few sites I really want to see and one of these includes a Star Wars site. So let’s dive into it! Trinity College: The college is known for the Old Library, which has the “Book of Kells” an 800 AD illuminated manuscript and the…
“Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe” written by Bill Bryson in 1991 is a snapshot of Europe on the cusp of many changes to come in Eastern Europe. He is a travelogue author of many books including “A Walk in the Woods.” Bryson had also traveled in Europe in the 1970s and talks about the changes Europe have gone through since then. The book…
These are the top ten places we want to see in London! Buckingham Palace The official residence of the Queen of England. It is also where you see the changing of the guard, which happens daily at 11:30 May through July and at 11:30 every other day August through April. Admission: The cost to see the palace starts at $25 per person and luckily it…
Matt Smith and his wife set out to visit all 59 national parks. This book tells their journey as if they were writing their friends Bob and Sue. Some readers might light this, but I found enjoyable. The book was a quirky and humorous at times and there were a few times that they faced real danger. I won’t spoil the details, but one can…
On our first Father’s Day we thought we needed to make it something special. This would be more than a meal, but a memorable moment with the kid. “We could go to the Arch grounds,” I suggested. “It’s under construction,” David said. He was right. We though through other places, checking out the old neighborhood we used to live in when we lived in the…
When my son was born I decided that I wanted to be that parent and measure his growth. I remember that a past employee using a big Winnie-the-Pooh. I looked around the house and then found in the basement our large Kermit the Frog. We found him displayed at a flea market that was moving locations. He had been displayed for years and they had…
My first clue that the back way we were taking to the top of Mount Greylock might be a problem was llamas blocking the road. They did in fact move and we headed on, but this was only the start of our problems on this particular route. This was of course after long day driving out to the Berkshires from suburban Boston, so this was…
