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Searching for Sunshine Through Germany and France
We returned to Europe on November 22nd and went directly to Duelmen, Germany to pick up our motorhome Romy after his long sleep in the freezing cold of winter, only to be greeted with more of the same. We did, however, spend a few days in the neighborhood [...]
Moscow: Capital of the Russian Federation
Above is the famed Novodevichy Convent at night from across the lake that, in the dead of winter, becomes a skating rink and was a favorite of Tolstoy's when he lived in the neighborhood. The convent itself has a long history dating from its founding in 1524. [...]
St. Petersburg and the Rivers of Russia
That sleek white ship sprawled across the photo above is our river cruiser, the MS Mstislav Rostropovich, on which we traveled for seven days down the rivers of Russia from the Neva in St. Petersburg to the Volga and Moscow. We have long wanted to visit Russia, [...]
A Month Crisscrossing Poland
We recognize that the huge moving sand dune on the Baltic coast of Poland is not what one would expect to find at the top of a posting about that country, but we are a little tired of headline photos of cityscapes, and decided to begin with what is [...]
Highlights of Hungary: Budapest, Thermal Baths, and Mummies
We were almost immediately seduced by Budapest. The last capital we had visited was Belgrade in Serbia over two months before. We had deliberately avoided the capitals of both Bulgaria and Romania because we were simply more interested in what was in the countryside, and felt as [...]
Romania Redux
When we put one of these postings together, we usually include at least something of the history of the country, but present day Romania was only unified in the late nineteenth century. Even in the minds of the Romanians today, it is still most strongly felt as a [...]
Rural Romania: Horse Carts and Haystacks
We have to begin by admitting that we simply fell in love with Romania and have given a good deal of thought how to document our experience there. In the end we have decided to do two postings about Romania. This posting will focus on the rural [...]
Across Bulgaria to the Black Sea
We spent our last night in Serbia parked about a mile from the Bulgarian border and crossed first thing in the morning. Sofia, the capital, was not far off, but we had just seen two capitals, and Sofia is not the 'garden spot of the Balkans.' [...]
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