Author dorabenley

La Quinta Throws Us Out And Won’t Refund Our Money: Late in the evening we were preparing to go to bed. I was reading aloud what I’d written that day. I’m editing a version of Dark 3, a YA mystery… Continue Reading →

Hotel Haus Oberwinter: Almost Like A FairyTale: We’d never heard of the Hotel Haus Oberwinter when we disembarked from the Queen Mary 2 on June 12. But by the 15th, only three days later, it had become a fixture of… Continue Reading →

The hotel was an odd cross between an American Holiday Inn Express and a European hotel with the worst of both types and few consolations. The room was supposed to have A/C but it looked like no A/C controls I’d… Continue Reading →

The hotel was an odd cross between an American Holiday Inn Express and a European hotel with the worst of both types and few consolations. The room was supposed to have A/C but it looked like no A/C controls I’d… Continue Reading →

Hotel Haus Oberwinter: Almost Like A FairyTale: We’d never heard of the Hotel Haus Oberwinter when we disembarked from the Queen Mary 2 on June 12. But by the 15th, only three days later, it had become a fixture of… Continue Reading →

A cathedral has stood here since the year 800 in the Dark Ages. The current cathedral is the third one on this site constructed in the 1200’s not long after the Third Crusade. We were driving through Munster on our… Continue Reading →

Restaurant Worth The Stay: The restaurant on the ground floor of Ibis Styles Osnabrueck in Germany was a welcome change from the dark, cellar-like restaurant that we ate at the day before in Oldenburg at the Best Western Heide Hotel…. Continue Reading →

An Italian restaurant with outside seating for those few warm days in Dortmund, the Vetro Restaurant sits right across the street from the Holiday Inn. The kind of place where you can expect a nice pot of fresh flowers on… Continue Reading →

Vetro Restaurant Dortmund: Charming Italian Restaurant With Deadly Parking