On a cold and very windy day we visited the most expansive collection of old windmills on offer in Holland. Kinderdijk, not far from Rotterdam, has 19 of them set in marshland well below sea level. The windmills may no longer be doing their old job of pumping water up into the nearby river (a […]
We visited the little shop of the Dumon family the other day for their wonderful handcrafted chocolate. Madame Dumon explained that there are many chocolate shops in Brugges, but only four which still make their own chocolate. All the others ship it in from large factories. And, I was so impressed that upon entering, before […]
Reflections on the Prinsengraacht, one of the major canals in the center of old Amsterdam.
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The final tour of the regular season starts on November 2 and lasts to November 16. A family of four from Manila will be enjoying their private tour with European Focus to the cities above plus much more.
Left a barren wasteland after WWII, Potsdamer Platz is once again the vibrant unofficial heart of Berlin. Tall skyscrapers built with cutting edge designs and sponsored in part by Sony Corporation, the area is full of light and color and activity until late in the evening. A huge train and underground station takes up acres […]
The Reichstag was the seat of the Parliament before the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s. An imposing structure built in the late 1800s, it was the backdrop for Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, when he was proclaimed chancellor by the ailing President von Hindenberg. A mysterious fire destroyed the building in […]
I spent nearly three hours at the “Topography of Terror,” located a few blocks to the west of the famous Checkpoint Charlie at the foundation of what used to be Gestapo Headquarters in the heart of Berlin. This landscape is hallowed ground. Many were tortured or murdered here, all in the name of State Security. […]