Early in the morning of our event day, we took the scenic route from Munich to Schwangau and Neuschwanstein Castle, and what a ride it was through the valleys at the bottom of the Alps and through the forests of southern Bavaria! As we got closer to Schwangau, the weather got better and better and—most […]
October 3 is a national holiday in Germany, the Day of Reunification of West and East Germany and the Bavarians had decided to extend Oktoberfest by 2 days, ending on this holiday. Enough reason for us to postpone the World Tour event at Neuschwanstein Castle to Wednesday, October 4. As the saying goes, and it […]
Surprise, surprise … at 5 am, the day broke promisingly with a dark blue sky…I can not believe that we could be having such luck again like in Istanbul! But, yes, as the day awoke, it became a perfect and calm day. At 7, we presented ourselves with van and trailer at the gates of […]
Rain…rain and more rain in Rome? Yes! At least our colorful and trendy hotel made up a bit for the gray weather. Even so, when I looked out of my window, I gazed right at a wall that made me think it must be like this in the worst Moscow suburban ghetto. Felt like being […]
Moscow has an amazingly multi-racial population. If you thought that all Russians look alike, well exactly the opposite is the case. From the Mongol influence, with almond eyes and black hair, to the blondes with blue eyes or a far more southern look with brown hair and dark eyes, everyone is different in Moscow. It […]
It had been extremely windy every day and the day before our scheduled event day, it even rained heavily. But today (it seems like we can trust what lovely Mrs. Ersön read in the coffee grounds!), what a lucky day for the New7Wonders campaign. This morning, we are blessed with an absolutely calm, dark blue […]
We were invited for a lunch meeting with the lady in charge of the archaeological and monument sites of Istanbul. We ate in her impeccably restored office building in the most beautiful Sultan’s gardens. By the way, the most efficient way to get there was by tram…but what a tram! New, air-conditioned and almost floating […]
After arriving at our hotel in Istanbul, we took a little stroll through the very picturesque restaurant area near the fishing harbor. Here, we were amazingly surprised by the witty approach that the head waiters have taken towards the tourists to lure them into their restaurants….”welcome to the worst place in Istanbul!”…”eat today, pay in […]
We were up before dawn and it was breathtaking to watch the sun slowly appear to the right of the Acropolis, lighting up this majestic monument. We were on time—even though the Greek TV crew was late, leaving their poor reporter frenzied at missing so much good television footage. The balloon went up for its […]
What strikes me most is the open friendliness and warmth of the people in the city streets. Many Greek have come back to Greece from other parts of the world where their parents had emigrated. I have met Greeks from Australia, from Canada, USA, Germany, even an 80-year -old Greek man from Tanzania. They all […]