Germany

Hesse, Frankfurt; Bavaria, Nuremberg & Munich 

It only took about thirty minutes to get from Frankfurt Airport to the central business district, a modern city not visibly remarkable but clean and efficient. From my accommodations the Main River, a tributary of the Rhine, was in sight and void of skyscrapers and angular shiny buildings. … read more

Puerto Rico

Old San Juan and San Juan’s Modern City

I had the best red snapper and papaya dishes in Old San Juan before a walk to Castillo del Morro, is a 16th-century citadel. … read more

Australia

New South Wales, Sydney, Bondi Beach, City of Blue Mountains, Katoomba

About two hours west of Sydney via the Faulconbridge train station, we arrived and soon boarded the world’s steepest passenger railway and descended into an ancient rainforest with Scenic World Blue Mountains highlighted by the Three Sisters rock formation from Echo Point Lookout at Katoomba.… read more

Dominican Republic

Puerto Plata & Cabarete 

One of the things I didn’t consider when getting the time share, and there are perhaps a million such stories, was the cost of airfare. I’m still waiting on the economies of scale to tip my way on that topic.… read more