Antarctica
Between 2002 and 2007, I made three trips to Antarctica on the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea. In an upcoming blog, I’ll write about those adventures. For details on visiting, click here.
Archive for May, 2014
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Drachenfels – Where Siegfried Slew the Dragon
There is a famous epic German poem called The Nibelungenlied (say that three times quickly!) or The Song of the Nibelungs. I’ve actually read most of the poem – as an English translation – but […]
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Roman Around Saalburg
It always amazes me how clever the Romans were. We’ve been to numerous Roman ruins and I’m always impressed by their aqueducts, buildings, bridges, baths, heating systems and so on. What never fails to impress […]
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Being Guided Through Aachen By Charlemagne
The first German building placed on the UNESCO World Heritage site was the Aachen Cathedral in, of course, the city of Aachen. Aachen is about a 2.5 hour drive from us, so rather than get […]
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Celebrating King’s Day in Utrecht
King’s Day in the Netherlands is one of the many festivals I’d wanted to attend while living in Europe, and this year I added it to the “done” list. When we moved here, the yearly […]
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How To Get Out of the Mud in Albanian Farmland
When last we left our intrepid travelers they were stuck in the mud in the middle of Albanian farmland. I know you’ve all been biting your nails and wringing your hands and wondering whether we ever […]
