Friedliche Revolution
Friedliche Revolution, known as Peaceful Revolution in English, were the 1989 non-violent protests against the East German communist government which led to its demise. The protests' origins were the Monday's…
Hitler’s Chancellery Lives!
Perhaps. In Berlin it's difficult to tell original vs. renovated, truth from myth. Chunks of the Berlin Wall are still for sell, 35 years after the wall fell. Is it…
Neue Wache
Known in English as The New Guardhouse, Neue Wache has commemorated victims of war since its construction in 1818: however, which war or victims has changed as Germany has changed,…
Deciding When To Die
Today, the United Kingdom House of Commons legalized assisted dying, also known as assisted suicide in the United States. Assisted suicide is legal in other countries and in ten US…
Vietnamese Food In Berlin
Bless is a Vietnamese restaurant near Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. More importantly, it was a short walk from our hotel, a key attribute as we had just arrived after overnight travel…
Geek Humor
As seen on the streets in Eau Claire, Wisconsin .... reminds me of this geek t-shirt.
Dining In Kaunas
I arrived in Kaunas after twenty hours of travel: flying from MSP to AMS to VNO, renting a car, and driving two hours to Kaunas on minimal sleep. I'm not…
Advertising At Its Simplest
Seen while walking around Kaunas, Lithuania....any idea what's being advertised? This is on an outside wall of the YZYBar in central Kaunus, and though it was too early to stop…
Noberhart & Schmutzig
I wanted to end our most recent trip to Berlin with a memorable dinner and chose Nobelhart & Schmutzig, a Michelin one-starred restaurant located on Friedrichstraße just past Checkpoint Charlie…
Heathrow of the Midwest
I arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul this past Sunday on an afternoon flight from Amsterdam Schiphol and saw this: the queue for immigrations filling all available space. Though I wasn't going…