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I Love L.A!
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Ten days in Los Angeles and now I’m back. For 10 evenings I dined out, which was a wonderful respite from my own cooking! I spent a day the Getty Museum viewing Bernini’s sculpture portraits.
Getty Center courtyard
Travertine detailing at the museum tram stop
Oh, and there was a wedding in between.
Our dear friends, Randy and Todd [...]
Berlin or Bust
Thursday, July 24th, 2008The final destination of our travels: Berlin. I had heard so many things about this city. Would it be a playground for Sally Bowles (of Cabaret fame) with her black page boy coif singing torch songs? Or a grey, dreary post-Soviet city of tower blocks? Or teeming with skinny tattooed punks in slim stovepipe leather [...]
Posted in travel | No Comments »>Why not Weimar?
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008What is this place Weimar? I had heard the name many times over the years. It was almost always in the context of the Weimar Republic. But just what was that? The more I read and the more I researched, amazingly the more I discovered. Funny how that works!
Weimar revealed itself in layers: layers of learning, [...]
Phoenix, Germany
Monday, July 7th, 2008We waved good-bye to Prague and said Guten Tag to Dresden. Two hours and a language separate these cities.
The Dresden Block House in bloom. A block house housed the munitions to protect the city.
The old united with the new, our hotel on the Elbe.
Dresden and Meissen (a city just a few miles away) have for [...]
Prague (part dew)
Friday, June 20th, 2008Draining the last of our drink, we peered from our perch behind the plate glass window. Will this rain never stop? As if by decree, a shaft of light stabbed the mist. (Note to self: use this power for good!)
Mist fought back. But sunlight valiantly battled on until its rays had victoriously swept the streets. [...]
Prague (part rain)
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Brimming to capacity with the experiences of Vienna, we boarded our train to Prague. I thought this would be a great time to reflect upon what we had seen and mentally sort and file these experiences away for future reference. Early 20th century Vienna had such energy and progressive thinking about creativity. I needed to [...]
Posted in travel | No Comments »>Vienna Calling
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Next stop on the Maria-Theresa Tour is Vienna. Napoleon was right when he declared that an army traveled on its stomach. We heartily take that same view. We eat our way through countries! If you are really serious about it, you begin with dessert. And what better place to put that to practice than in [...]
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