International Marking for Trails My husband and I love to hike. A trip is considered particularly good if it includes one walk through the countryside. Hiking is hardly limited to the United States and easily available for those who care to try sites abroad. View of Marlborough Sound on Queen Charlotte Track Walking sticks for… Read more »
View of Trasimeno Lake from Montegualandro Castle Aerial View of Montegualandro Castle – photo from Castle’s website Castles come in all sizes. The largest in the world is not the English Windsor (4th on the list) but Malbork Castle in Poland. Thanks to many ad-ons for a growing list of Teutonic knights, it measures in… Read more »
Country home in Tuscany In my travels, I often ask locals what has changed in the last ten or twenty years? Were I asked the same of Paris, the answer would include new restaurants and hotels, subdivisions in the county, expanded school campuses, closing of Merico and Phillips Lighting, and the rejuvenation of downtown. Yet,… Read more »
Apartment in Paris Europeans have long known the secret to economic lodging and a solution to small hotel rooms – rent an apartment. That’s not a surprise since many workers on the Continent have the month of August to vacation and a hotel room would be quite small for all those many days. Americans are… Read more »
The shopping mall has been with us for over 50 years and the modern supermarket started with a Piggly Wiggly in 1916. But their predecessors began centuries ago. I was reminded of that on a recent trip to Tunisia and Sicily, fascinating destinations that lie just across the Mediterranean Sea from each other – each… Read more »
Mary with statue of John Lennon in Havana, Cuba park
Mary riding camel in Jordan desert
Mary Surrounded by Hmong women selling their wares in Sapa, Vietnam
Mary on glacier in southern New Zealand