It’s Amazing How Few Ground Floor Rooms There Were In Germany 11/7/12 During a ten-day stay in Germany and Austria, there were only two hotels with ground-floor rooms — the Best Western Park Hotel in Potsdam and the Best Western… Continue Reading →

There Was A Lot Of Fog On The North Atlantic 11/06/12 I hadn’t seen any fog at all in the past 14 years since I moved to Tucson, Arizona. Then this year we drove East and crossed the Atlantic to… Continue Reading →

It’s Hard To Imagine How Cold It Is In Europe During The Summer 11/5/12 Coming from Tucson it’s almost impossible to imagine how chilly it is in Europe in the summer until you visit the place yourself. Temperatures in Tucson… Continue Reading →

Now That I’m Back From Europe I Really See Europe 11/4/12 When we were on our whirlwind 10-day tour of Germany we rarely had time to pause over anything. That was even more true of our 6-hour shore excursion to… Continue Reading →

We Have Lots Of European Photo Albums 11/3/12 I’ve made up one photo book on Shutterfly.com for the trip as a whole — the USA driving segment, the two crossings on the Atlantic Ocean, the shore excursion in Britain, and… Continue Reading →

Nuremberg’s Rally Grounds Deserve Attention 11/2/12 I’m rewriting the scene at the Rally Grounds in my historical thriller novel, Captive At The Berghof. But I have to keep the pace. I add description and more action, but I also have… Continue Reading →

Photo Books Are A Good Way To Preserve European Photos 11/01/12:A photo book is a good replacement for an old-fashioned photo album. It doesn’t take up as much space, and it preserves the photos longer. Also you know you have… Continue Reading →

The Goethe Puppet We Bought In Weimar Gave Out Candy For Halloween 10/31/12 With all due respect to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the famous German poet and author of Faust, we decided to use his puppet to give out candy…. Continue Reading →

Deck 4 Was The Best Deck on the Queen Mary 2: 10/30/12 We thought deck 4 was the best deck. It was closest to all the activities on decks 2 and 3. We even had our own private balcony so… Continue Reading →

A Visit To The Most Gothic Place On Earth 10/29/12: Our shore excursion to the South of England around Stonehenge and Salisbury was the spookiest, most Gothic day of the whole European trip. Stonehenge looked like a ghost town from… Continue Reading →