Stuttgart may be best known as the home to the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums, but this German capital city is also about stately architecture, soaring vineyards, and one of the best town squares for whiling away a Saturday afternoon. If [...]
For good or bad, when we travel, we notice all the differences from our own hometowns and cultures. Reactions range from “Why doesn’t everyone do this?” to “This is the stupidest thing ever!” We view everything through our own cultural [...]
In a previous job, Steve was part of a software development team working in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia. He travelled to work with the team for a couple of weeks at a time every six weeks or so. A variety [...]
Stuttgart’s Cannstatter Volksfest rivals that other festival in Munich, which also spans three weeks each fall and features vast quantities of beer and German drinking songs. It’s not quite as big as Oktoberfest, but I’m betting it’s every bit as [...]
You plan for months, maybe look forward to a single day at one of the iconic sites, you envision yourself in that cute little sundress you’re planning to wear. But then things don’t turn out exactly as you planned and [...]
One of the things I love about travel is how it frees me to become someone else for a while. Not that I completely abandon my tastes and sensibilities, but I do many things I wouldn’t dream of on home base. [...]
One of the things that keeps me busy when Steve’s away on business is my book club. I’ve read so many great books I wouldn’t have without it. Our latest read, “Us” by David Nicholls is definitely my favourite so [...]
In 2011, we planned a multi-city trip to Europe with a first stop in Iceland. Our savvy travel planner suggested we add The Faroe Islands to our itinerary. Located in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Denmark, it was the perfect [...]
Like everything in life, travel has its high and low points. It also introduces us to the unfamiliar, which is part of what makes it so enriching. As we close in on the end of the year, here are the [...]