Getting a chance to try reindeer meat in Finland was on my list of things I wanted to do, but with the tours we had scheduled (this was…
Helsinki, Finland – All we had done by this point was walk around looking at everything Unique Lapland had to offer. I was getting very warm in the…
Helsinki, Finland – Being from Southern California, born and raised under the California sun, I was a little less than enthusiastic when my wife suggested we take something…
Tervetuloa Suomeen! Welcome to Finland! Finland is located in Northern Europe. On its northern border lies Norway. On its eastern border, Russia. Its southern border is marked by…
Did you know… About 1/3 of Berlin’s territory is composed of forests, parks, rivers, and lakes Berlin has its origins in the 13th century and has been the…
No doubt you have heard of our next stop, the Berlin Wall. The wall was constructed in 1961 to stop “emigration and defection” from the communist East Berlin…
From the memorial we made a brief stop at Charlottenburg Palace (Schloss Charlottenburg), named for Sophie Charlotte, the first Queen consort in Prussia. In the courtyard is an…
Following lunch, we drove over to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial. The memorial was designed by American Peter Eisenman.…
We loaded up the bus again. Sylvia pointed out a Trabant as we drove by it. What is a Trabant? It is a small East German vehicle built…