Isn’t this so pretty? It’s “Die Morgenstunde,” by 19th century German painter Moritz von Schwind, and it’s part of the Schack Collection (Sammlung Schack), in Munich. For… more →
Tidepooler: Culture, Travel, Weddings, Hometripsaytravel wrote 5 days ago: Germany, with the population of 82,057,000, is tourists’ favorite and enjoyable holiday spot in Euro … more →
tidepooler wrote 1 week ago: Isn’t this so pretty? It’s “Die Morgenstunde,” by 19th century German painte … more →
tidepooler wrote 2 weeks ago: Arrive on a Friday evening and wander the streets near Hackescher Markt in search of gallery opening … more →
Bob Berwyn wrote 3 weeks ago: John Berwyn reads the inscription on a Cold War memorial in Devin, Slovakia, built to honor thousand … more →
citizenjournalistreview wrote 2 months ago: We visited Dachau about 20 years ago. When we left Auschwitz, in Poland, this year, we were going th … more →
tidepooler wrote 5 months ago: Munich, Germany. February 26, 2008 … more →
tidepooler wrote 6 months ago: Two weekends ago I had a romantic rendezvous in Hamburg. Sam flew in from London and I arrived on th … more →
tidepooler wrote 6 months ago: I wake up around 9:30 in the most perfect neighborhood on the planet, the Graefekiez (Graefe = the m … more →
tidepooler wrote 6 months ago: This week, one of my favorite people, Audrey Hepburn would have turned 80. (On Monday, May 4 to be e … more →
tidepooler wrote 7 months ago: Once home to Goethe, and Schiller, and the generous arts patron, the Duchess Anna Amalia, a visit to … more →
airtravel2000 wrote 7 months ago: The rail station ‘Düsseldorf Flughafen’ is fully integrated into the network of German Rail. Inter-C … more →
tidepooler wrote 8 months ago: My darling Samantha is visiting from London! So I might not be blogging too much this week. We … more →
tidepooler wrote 10 months ago: There’s a new exhibition space in the middle of Berlin called the Temporäre Kunsthalle. It … more →
tidepooler wrote 11 months ago: Wouldn’t it be lovely to spend a night in a windmill? Here are eight historic retreats. Anemom … more →
tidepooler wrote 12 months ago: Welcoming and undemanding, Berlin doesn’t expect anything, yet it encourages ever so subtly. A … more →
tidepooler wrote 1 year ago: It hardly ever snows in Berlin. Except in the very early hours of the morning, when a cloudy grey cl … more →
tidepooler wrote 1 year ago: Taschen is a German publisher known for their art books, which they started putting out in 1980. But … more →
tidepooler wrote 1 year ago: Today is German Unity Day, and here in Berlin, everyone has the day off. The national holiday commem … more →
tidepooler wrote 1 year ago: One day Rama and I started biking south from Friedrichshain, our neighborhood in Berlin. Since we do … more →