Author dorabenley

We spent all day on July 10 sailing around the harbor at Halifax while the Queen Mary 2 was in port. You can see a lot more from the water than you can on land. For one thing, you can’t… Continue Reading →

We Didn’t Have To Look Up At The Royal Liver Building: We got an unexpectedly wonderful view of this World Heritage Site building on July 4 when Queen Mary 2 docked here as part of its 175th anniversary re-creation of… Continue Reading →

Pier Head Liverpool: Three Graces Make Good Background For Snapshots: The Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building, and the Port Of Liverpool Building are part of the World Heritage Site at the Liverpool Waterfront or Pier Head where we tied… Continue Reading →

The last night in Germany when we were poised on the outskirts of Hamburg to make a beeline for the Queen Mary 2 the next day, we decided to do something different for dinner. We headed out into the country… Continue Reading →

9/11 Remembered In Pittsburgh: My parents had the strange experience of being in downtown Pittsburgh at one of the department stores on September 11, 2001. They were getting ready to leave and they were told that a plane was headed… Continue Reading →

Donald Trump vs. the Queen: A Letter To Someone In England: What is with you and Donald Trump? Why does he make you an enthusiast for the monarchy? American politics looks weird to any European. Unfortunately the British speak the… Continue Reading →

Hotel Zur Linde: Traditionally German Not one other guest at the Hotel Zur Linde on the outskirts of Hamburg seemed to be an American. All the others appeared to be Germans on vacation trips with their families and dogs who… Continue Reading →

Most hotels we stayed at in Europe either had a hotel restaurant or was located near a restaurant. Jobser Hof in Wurselen was the second — in addition to Motel Drive In located on the outskirts of Luxembourg City —… Continue Reading →

The giant statue of the gray marble lion rising from a mound of green grass up into the sky on the Waterloo Battlefield is what one immediately perceives upon arriving there. It dominates your attention to the exclusion of everything… Continue Reading →

Waterloo Battlefield: Napoleon Wouldn’t Have Recognized It: After lunch we drove out to the actual battlefield. We saw the Lion’s Mound with the statue of a lion on a grassy hill sticking high up in the air. We took pictures… Continue Reading →