I love National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I’ve participated – and finished – several times over the years, and each year as November is on the horizon, I am always wondering if I’ll do it again. And while I haven’t participated every year since that first time, I am planning…
I flew into a small airport just outside of Gdansk, met a very nice cab driver (who thought I was Norwegian) who took a route that circuited the city center, so I have to say didn’t quite happen at first sight. But I was incredibly excited about being in Poland.…
With roughly two days, my time in Munich was limited. I did explore my first day, though without much of a set plan. It wasn’t until my second day that I had sites in my mind that I wanted to see. Some of those came after my explorations – places…
One of the many, many things I love about Europe are the palaces. Beautiful, ornate, sprawling buildings that contain or allude to the other things that I love: art, history, romance and a little bit of intrigue. Or in some instances, quite a bit of intrigue (Hall of Mirrors and…
“There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.” – David Guterson My grandmother’s house was that kind of house that books are written about. I don’t mean because of its stately elegance or how it was situated on the side of a river or facing the beach…
I had quite possibly the most picturesque introduction to Germany by flying into Munich when I did. My flight made its descent in the early morning, the soft sunlight turning the carefully squared fields into bars of gold, the fog burning off along the tree line, and villages of white…