Category Archives: Travel

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Posted on October 5, 2018 by rosemariecurteman

As those of you who have followed my blogs probably guessed, I took a hiatus from posting new adventures.  I was out there living them!  Below, please find impressions of four discoveries—this time on St. Petersburg, Russia, and pearling, horse … Continue reading →

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STOCKHOLM

Posted on February 8, 2014 by rosemariecurteman

Stockholm “The Northern Star.”   – Time (July 4, 2011)      The Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909), spoke of Stockholm as “a city that floats on water.”  Indeed, Stockholm, the … Continue reading →

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JERUSALEM

Posted on November 18, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

JERUSALEM Yerushaláyim (in biblical Hebrew) Al-Quds (in Arabic) “The world has ten measures of beauty, and nine of these belong to Jerusalem.”                                                        -Jerusalem adage      When friends ask why I keep returning to Jerusalem (I’ve been there four times), … Continue reading →

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Andalusia # 3 Seneca.

Posted on October 2, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

Spain’s LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA “All cruelty springs from weakness.” -Seneca      Before leaving the subject of Andalusia, I can’t resist mentioning Seneca—Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)—the Córdoban-born Stoic philosopher, orator, essayist, playwright and poet, who some consider to … Continue reading →

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Andalusia #2

Posted on September 8, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

Below are two of the greatest buildings that the Moors (an inexact but now generally accepted term to describe the early Muslims/Arabs who invaded Spain) left behind:  Córdoba’s Mezquita and the palace of Alhambra in Granada. The Great Mosque, the … Continue reading →

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ANDALUSIA

Posted on August 15, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

Andalucía  “It is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call ‘Western’ culture is owed in large measure to the Andalusian enlightenment.” -Christopher Hitchens, The Nation      When my friends Tom and Barbara first shared with me the riveting … Continue reading →

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Brussels’ FLEA MARKETS

Posted on June 25, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

  . . .pleasant was it then to stray down the peaceful alleys, and hear the bells of St. Jean Baptiste peal out with their sweet, soft, exalted sound. —Charlotte Brontë  (Vilette,1853)       Brussels, founded in A.D. 979, is not … Continue reading →

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Women Traveling Solo: Pros & Cons plus Tips.

Posted on June 5, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.”  —Edith Wharton        People often ask me what it’s like to do all the traveling that I do alone.  The truth … Continue reading →

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Oxford, England # 3

Posted on May 1, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

“I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!” —Lord Coleridge (1820-94)      Even though my sister Anne was mending from her massive brain hemorrhage, she … Continue reading →

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Oxford, England

Posted on April 15, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

 “Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge . . . and the traveler is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.”—Baedeker’s Great Britain (1887) An aspect of travel that … Continue reading →

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