Water treatments are scattered in my literary memory. My Austrian babysitter read to me from Heidi. In the opening pages, Heidi’s Aunt Dete takes a job in the baths leaving Heidi to live with grandfather in the Swiss alps. Heidi’s invalid friend, Clara, visits… Read More ›
Places we’ve been
Three Days in Copenhagen…
Our daughter, Taylor, visited in January and wanted to go “someplace new”. She’s a well travelled 20 year old – and unfortunately, the south of Europe was largely in the “been there, done that” category. “What about Copenhagen?” In the pros column were the 59 euro… Read More ›
Three days in Philadelphia…
There was a time when you did not visit Philadelphia. The northeastern cities of the United States, in general, were best avoided. People are flocking back to rejuvenate the downtowns and reclaim the good city life. We spent 10 days in Philly over Christmas. … Read More ›
Three days in the Cote d’Azur: In and around Nice, France
It is Sunday morning and the market square in Nice is coming alive surrounded by the pastel 500 year old buildings of the Cours Saleya. A dusty pink sky turns pale blue as chirping birds welcome the morning. Rapid fire… Read More ›
Three Days in Vienna
Vienna is an hour bus ride from Bratislava. In spite of this, over the last year, we rarely made the trip. To me, Vienna is Bratislava’s living room. Accessible, but a bit too fancy to be much fun. However, if… Read More ›