Travel: General

Ringing in the New Year with a Strauss waltz concert has become a beloved tradition that began in Vienna, Austria, in 1939, and has spread around the globe. Each year the Vienna Philharmonic [...]

You can tell a lot about a person by their books: at home and on the road. I have shelves of uncategorized fiction, including books I’ve read and those I haven’t. There’s a small, poetry-sized [...]

It might surprise you to learn that Halloween originated as a Celtic celebration for the new year, which in the Celtic calendar began on November 1st. (The Celts lived about 2,000 years ago in [...]

The spires of Highclere Castle set the elegant tone of the PBS Masterpiece TV series Downton Abbey (see my post: “My Pilgrimage to the Real Downton Abbey”) but fans of the show and movie want to [...]