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How we met Girona architect Rafael Masó

By on December 6, 2013 in Europe, Spain

The extra benefits of staying in an apartment in Girona, arranged via Housetrip, surpassed our expectations. The six of us, my husband Tom and his two brothers and their wives, could hang out, recharge, eat some snacks and drink cold beer or cava in the comfort of our own 3-bedroom apartment, smack dab in the […]

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Food, Music, Art–The Vienna Triple Play

By on December 4, 2013 in Austria, Europe, Stay & Eat

Vienna was cold at the end of November. It was below freezing and worse, there was about a 40 kph wind blowing all the time. And since we hadn’t planned or packed for winter in Northern Europe when we left the US, we were definitely underdressed. Consequently, we didn’t do our usual wandering around more […]

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Visiting Berlin Byways

By on December 1, 2013 in Europe, Germany, Stay & Eat

As it sometimes happens when we announce we are headed to a city, friends chime in with sightseeing suggestions or, even better, the names and contact info for their friends in the area. In Berlin we met friends and friends-of-friends, and our visit was all the better for it.  We took their advice! Yes, we […]

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Wiener Schnitzel is Why I Came to Vienna

By on November 29, 2013 in Austria, Europe, Stay & Eat

I just want to say that I’ve had a lot of Wiener schnitzel in my life, including at least a weekly dose in the mid 1970s at the late, lamented, Flying Red Horse Diner (it doubled as a Mobil gas station) in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. At the Flying Red Horse, it being America and all, […]

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Travel Past 50 supports Passports with Purpose and buildOn.org

By on November 27, 2013 in Never Too Old, Q&A

Lucky you, we have two ways to introduce you to BuildOn.org. We hope you’ll help with a donation. Any donation, $10 and up, is appreciated. Passports with Purpose, whose ad has been appearing on our TP50 home page, is fueled by travel bloggers like us. Through December 9, you can donate through Passports with Purpose […]

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Stay and Eat in Spain

By on November 25, 2013 in Europe, Spain, Stay & Eat

This trip to Spain was unusual for us. It was fast, it was pre-planned, and it was with four others, Tom’s two brothers and their wives. Tom and I were tour guides, in a way, because the rest had never visited Spain before. We were eager to show off the country we love, so of […]

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