El Celler de Can Roca By the Numbers
“What do you mean you haven’t heard of El Celler de Can Roca? It’s the 2nd best restaurant in the world!” This is the 1st…
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Postcard from Istanbul
The landing announcement echoes through the plane triggering the memories of 12 years ago. In 2000 I was arriving from a 17-hour flight with a…
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Berlin’s Jewish Cemetery Tells A Story
Cemeteries tell a story, and the Weissensee Cemetery in Berlin is a giant historical war novel. However the story is not necessarily about what’s in…
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Hop On Hop Off European Train Travel
I lean my head back on the seat and gaze out the window as I gently rock back and forth. The landscape accelerates by me…
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Breaking German Food Stereotypes – Berlin
Put the words German and Food together and you think about hearty, heavy food – with visions of sausages, sauerkraut, potato dumplings, spaetzle, and cabbage…
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Transparent Politics in Berlin
Politics are normally conducted behind closed doors – seedy deals, negotiations, handshakes, promises, and sometimes even sexual favors (aka – the blue dress). But in…
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Photographing Abandoned Berlin
“Be careful; watch your head.” the guide says as he shines a flashlight up towards the low doorway. I’m startled upon hearing his warning – …
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Graveyard of Fun – Spreepark Berlin
Even fun has a shelf life – this is what runs through my mind as I walk around Spreepark, the abandoned, dilapidated amusement park in…
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Pillar Perspectives – Holocaust Memorial Berlin
I walked deep into the middle and with each uneven step I seemed to descend from where I had started at street level. I could…
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Disintegration of the Soul – Stasi Prison
Our short, spunky guide named Grit had us all circle around her in the cold, dimly lit prison cell. She started by asking us a…
