by Lucy Gordan | Apr 18, 2007 | Travel, Travel blog
Rome/Vatican City, Easter Sunday 2007. It takes only about 45 minutes to make a complete trek around walls of Vatican City, the world’s smallest independent country of 44 hectares, or 108.7 acres. There’s a lot more to explore here than St. Peter’s,...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 9, 2007 | Travel, Travel blog
Like the hotel she owns and runs meticulously with her children Alexandra and Georg, Elisabeth Gürtler is super-Viennese and glamorous. Immediately after my return from the Sacher bakery, this petite, charismatic workaholic with sparkling periwinkle eyes and a...
by Scott W. Clemens | Oct 1, 2004 | Travel, Travel blog
I considered myself well traveled, and certainly I’ve seen much more of the world than anyone else in my family. But to be truthful, I’d always played it safe. Having had a smattering of romance languages in school, I focused on North and South America,...
