Wow! The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which featured the people, culture, food, art, craft, and music of Perú, was an inspiring experience! If the five hou...

I have already written about the wonderful wursts and the best beers I enjoyed while traveling through Germany. Of course, German cuisine is not all sausage...

WARNING: The following post is rated M for Mature, due to alcohol reference and use of alcohol. Of course Germany is world-renown for its beer! In the twelve...

Germany is infamous for its many varieties of Wursts (pronounced 'versts'). Here in America, we call them sausages. As I learned on my voyage through Germa...

The photograph above, which I took in Munich, has nothing to do with my story, but I have to share this tale of yet another incident that befell me on my tou...

Ahh, Rothenburg! It is the quaintest and possibly best-preserved walled medieval town in the world (OK, maybe just Germany, but, still). I would say it is al...

Bamberg is a quintessential medieval German town with very old and, for the most part, original timber framed buildings, rough cobblestone pedestrian streets...

So, I had a brand new adventure today. Somewhere on the A-4 between Dresden and Weimar in the small town of Chemnitz, the bus was pulled over by German Custo...

I have neglected to write for the past two days because we have had two jam-packed days in Dresden Germany, with an extension to Gorlitz, Germany and Zgorzel...

Toady, we visited Potsdam, Germany, which is just outside of Berlin. It is probably most famous for the Potsdam Conference, which occurred towards the end of...

According to our guide, today was an unusually hot day for Berlin. It was in the mid to uppers 80s! And we spent a large part of the day walking around Berli...

After I got to the hotel today, I learned that I had about seven hours until the tour officially started with a group dinner. Seven hours to discover Berlin w...

Well, I made it through the baggage check-in and security at Dulles in less than thirty minutes. I even had time to enjoy a Starbucks and walk around the con...

After a hearty breakfast at the hotel buffet, I decided to take a walk down the street outside our hotel to find a different street vendor than the one from ...

A duck inviting us into the Bian Yi Fang Roast Duck Restaurant After the Pearl Market experience I was quite hungry! Who knew four and a half hours of shoppi...

Hong Qiao Pearl Market I need to preface this post by saying that I do not consider myself a big shopper. In fact, I am fairly frugal, saving money so that I...

Delicious and Nutritious! I wrote previously about our wonderful day at Hei Zhi Ma Primary School, truly the highlight of my trip! What I did not include at ...

A lesson in discipline and respect One of the high points of my trip so far was the visit to a primary school in Beijing. We visited two campuses of the same...

Unexpected delights around every corner St. Joseph’s Church The evening after our Summer Palace/Tea Tasting experiences, we had free time, so several of us w...

Culture, Tradition, Ceremony Tools of the trade Following our visit to the Summer Palace, we were treated to a tea tasting in a traditional tea house. Not on...