Destinations

When you visit Prague, you will want to plan to spend time in the Jewish Quarter for the complicated history found here. One of the most intriguing places in this…

Do you have a restaurant where you feel instantly relaxed and immersed in the atmosphere? One of my favorite restaurants is the Storytellers Café in Downtown Disney Anaheim. It’s part…

Just a short way from the famed Charles Bridge and the lovely Vltava River, a little-known monument memorializes Prague’s heroes of WWII. It’s in the crypt of the small Saints…

High on the hill above Prague’s Old Town, Prague Castle is a complex of varied buildings. Royal and religious structures have stood here since the 9th century. Today, it is…

Prague’s Old Town Square is the heart of this grand historic city, capital of the Czech Republic.When you visit Prague, you are likely to cross this square many times and…

The Topography of Terror is a Documentation Center in Berlin that opened in 2010 to inform all who visit about the Nazi reign of terror. It’s an outdoor and indoor…

The Berlin Holocaust Memorial is odd in many ways, one being its official name: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. From the start, the memorial generated controversy even over…

The Tiergarten in central Berlin is an oasis of greenery and ponds in the middle of modern buildings of glass and chrome. I’d looked on Google maps before we arrived…

The impressive Berlin Cathedral, with its magnificent dome, is a landmark in central Berlin. Also known as the Berliner Dom, the church sits among the stately museums on Museum Island,…

The Berlin Wall is familiar to us and yet much more complicated than I understood before visiting the Berlin Wall Memorial. The line of the Wall, built in 1961, zigs…