Tag Archives: European Travel

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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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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On the Road Again- Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Posted on July 5, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

We all know the world teems with wondrous places.  There are those I portray in my book 7 ½ Places of Wonder:  Munich, Dubai, Florence, Andalusia, Oxford, Jerusalem, St. Petersburg, and Stockholm, but there are also lesser known locales that … 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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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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OXFORD

Posted on March 25, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

 Oxford England “There is nothing in England to be matched with what lurks in the vapours of these meadows, and in the shadows of these spires—that mysterious, inalienable spirit, spirit of Oxford.  Oxford!  The very sight of the word printed, … Continue reading →

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