Category: STORIES
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Paris | Sunday in the Park
“In certain corners of the Luxembourg garden you could almost believe yourself in the countryside. There was nothing more delicious, after a wearying day, than to find yourself hidden among these great trees, to forget Paris in the center of Paris, to smell the invigorating scents of earth and vegetation.” Jules François Simon, 19th century…
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Where am I? A Day in the Life of a World Traveler
Bruges is in Belgium. I mention this because I think I may have hit the travel wall…I’ve been to so many different European cities lately that I can’t seem to remember where I am.
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Rome | Nothing But the Truth
La Bocca della Verità, or Mouth of Truth, was made famous in the 1953 movie, “Roman Holiday,” when Gregory Peck scared Audrey Hepburn by pretending his hand had been bitten off. The famous face is still there, and the scene is re-enacted over and over and over and over again…
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Roman Holiday
The city of Rome is a living, breathing, open-air museum, and I have been its patron for the past few days.
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Vienna | It is Possible to Take Pictures
After grappling with the “no photograph” rule in Vienna museums, I rejoiced in seeing this little sign at the entrance of St. Nicholas Church in Prague.
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Vienna | No Photos Allowed
Yes, this is a photo. No, I wasn’t supposed to take it. It’s the MAK Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts, in Vienna. I love Vienna, and it’s a fantastic museum. There’s just a couple problems…
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A Musical Tale of Vienna
When I think of Vienna, I think of music…
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Belle-Île-en-Mer | Journey Across an Island
It started out as an interesting excursion…a visit to the studio of an artist who makes tiny ships out of mussel shells. It turned out to be yet another unanticipated adventure.
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Beautiful Belle-Île-en-Mer
When painter Claude Monet spent time on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1886, he was fascinated by the constantly changing weather and the way the landscape altered with the tides. “I am staying in a tiny hamlet on Belle-Île and working hard. It’s a very beautiful, very wild place; the sea is incomparably beautiful and some of the…
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Belle-Île-en-Mer: The First Day
Today I took two trains, one bus, and a ferry from Paris to Belle-Île-en-Mer, an island off the coast of Brittany. I left my hotel in Paris at 8:00 a.m. and arrived in Belle-Île-en-Mer at 3 p.m. Here is the tale of my journey, and my first day on the island.
