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Auschwitz & Birkenau Extermination Camps
Grey, un-textured patterns painted the flat skies above the long horizon. The late summer air, warm and stale, was silent with little more than a light breeze to remind us that we were…
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Tour of Krakow and the High Tatras
We recently had an opportunity to travel to Krakow, the former imperial capital and Poland’s second city, for four days of exploring historic old towns, majestic mountains, and world-class museums. Wroclaw Old Town…
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Weekend Wedding in the Bordeaux Wine Region
Last weekend Kenz and I attended our second summer wedding of the year, this time in a small village in the Bordeaux wine region. We met this wonderful couple through the groom’s brother…
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My Big Fat Greek Holiday: Athens
We went to Athens as the last stop on our Greek holiday with the family. After hearing mixed reviews about Athens, we decided to visit Athens as a long stop-over on our way…
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My Big Fat Greek Holiday: Santorini
The next stop on our family holiday is to the spectacular island of Santorini in the south Aegean Sea. Santorini epitomises the quintessential Greek holiday — dramatic cliffside villages, dazzling beaches, white-washed blue-domed…
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My Big Fat Greek Holiday: Crete
Kenz and I just returned from a week long family holiday to the Greek Isles with my older sister and her husband in town from Hong Kong and my kid sister from California…
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Old Friends, New Places: Ljubljana and Lake Bled, Slovenia
Sometimes life leads you to places you never imagined you would go. Unbelievably, it was almost fourteen years ago this summer that I had the opportunity to spend two months in Japan on…
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Easter in København
One of the perks of living across the pond is that we get Good Friday and Easter Monday so most of us in Europe get a nice long four-day weekend for Holy Week.…
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Leipzig: An Update from the former East Germany
With Portugal following Ireland and Greece as the latest eurozone member to request a bailout from the European Union (with Spain faltering economically and Italy collapsing politically in its own increasingly strange ways)…
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Le printemps à Paris
Three days after returning from Brazil, Kenz and I found ourselves once again in the City of Lights for a short weekend. It is very rare that I join Kenz on one of…
