A Walking Tour of the Comic Book Murals of Brussels, Belgium
Belgium is famous for its array of comic books, and in Brussels there is not only a Comic Museum but also a walking tour where the many fanciful characters escape the […]
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Smørrebrød: the Famous Open-Faced Sandwiches of Denmark
A quick Danish lesson: smørre = butter; brød = bread. Smørrebørd (butter-bread) is what they call the famous open-faced sandwiches of Denmark. For my first meal in Copenhagen I had: sandwich […]
The Cliffs of Moher Overview
An overview of the Cliffs of Moher. A crow. Or is it Morrigan, the red-haired blood-drenched queen, shape-shifted into a crow, who is supervising the tourists from the sign post […]
Stevns Klint and the ‘Fish Clay’
With an arrow pointing to Stevns Klint on my map, I wrote: I felt that Dad was with me.” We started our explorations in the lighthouse.The view looking down from […]
Dolgellau’s Precipice Walk in Snowdonia, Wales
June 4, Dongellau. Initially you pass through rolling hills and woodlands. A barbwire fence and bluebells in a meadow. At one point you come to a split in the trail where […]
Ancient Viking Runes from Denmark
The Vikings flourished in Scandinavia between the years 700 AD to 1100, a time known as the Dark Ages (or Medieval) in most of Northern Europe. The Vikings raised stone […]
The 5 Chinese Elements in Sweden
Tanum, a UNESCO World Heritage Rock Art Centre, is famous for its petroglyphs put there 10,000 years ago by the Bronze Age people who lived in this area in northern […]
