Top 10 Christmas Markets
Europe’s Christmas Markets The story of Europe’s Christmas markets begins in the late Middle Ages,…
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Amsterdam with Kids: How to Enjoy the City Without Losing Your Mind
First of all, I do not live in Amsterdam, I live 30 minutes to the…
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A European Attempt at Crossing Denver
An Outsider It’s a funny thing, being a tourist, or at least a transient, in…
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Portugal: Porto, Madeira and Overtourism
A Growing Problem Anyone following international news these days may be acquainted with the wave…
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On Being Lost
Lost in the Woods I can remember it as though it were yesterday: that fallen-down…
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A Winter Day in Amsterdam
A Winter Long Past I can still remember it: that Christmas morning in 2000 when…
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A Fall Day in Amsterdam
Being a Tourist Again In October, the Dutch weather turns bad. The days are darker,…
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Market-Garden: Just Grass
In September of 1944, the German army in the Netherlands found itself in disarray. Only…
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The Move
I don’t know where our dog or our seven bags are but the line into…
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A New Chapter
Rotterdam, 1840: Leaving Everything Behind It was an overcast day as typical of Rotterdam in…
