Throwback Tour - 1995

One of the first tours that I led in Europe, circa 1995. Castles and Grapes connected the great wine regions of Germany and France, while mixing in non-alcoholic sights and history along the way.

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Travel Thought for the Week of January 10, 2022

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”

– William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830), English writer

Swiss man finds Roman battle site

A Swiss man, using a metal detector to poke around in a field in his spare time, has discovered a 2000 year-old Roman battle site.⁠ https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/s...

Travel Thought for the Week of January 3, 2022

“...a good part of all longing to travel consists in a yearning for people one has never seen, a lust for the new — to look into strange eyes, strange faces, to rejoice in the unknown human types and manners.”

– Thomas Mann, German Novelist, Confessions of Felix Krull, 1954

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