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Luna Luna Forgotten Fantasy Los Angeles

Once in a blue moon, an art exhibit offers such magic as Luna Luna Forgotten Fantasy in Los Angeles. The exhibit showcases a collection of artist-made carnival fun that first operated in Germany in 1987. Lost, rediscovered, restored, the exhibit will enchant the entire family.

GÖRLITZ, LUCIE SCHULTE AND TRIFLE

Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany, attracts the international film industry. Over 100 movies have been shot in the village, and the restaurant Lucie Schulte serves the cast and crews with a great deal of style. One of the restaurant’s best dishes is Poppy Seed Trifle–and here is the recipe…

¶ Posted 01 August 2020 † Susan Manlin Katzman § BARS § BEVERAGES § CZECH REPUBLIC § DESSERTS § GORLITZ § RECIPES § RESTAURANTS § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Germany, Görlitz, Görliwood, Lucie Schulte, Neisse River, poppy seeds, Saxony, The Grand Budapest Hotel, trifle

PENCK HOTEL DRESDEN GERMANY

Although it might not be to everyone’s taste, the Penck Hotel Dresden is wildly innovative and strangely attractive as well as welcoming and agreeable. The hotel serves as a museum to artist A.R. Penck.

¶ Posted 05 November 2019 † Susan Manlin Katzman § ACCOMMODATIONS § ARCHITECTURE § ART § DRESDEN § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: A.R. Penck, Art hotel, Germany, Penck Hotel Dresden

BEST RESTAURANTS IN BERLIN

Although born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1967, Dirk Engelhardt moved to Berlin to study at the University of Berlin and stayed. He worked as a freelance journalist, contributing food, travel, and life-style material to a variety of prestigious publications, before moving to Barcelona, in 2008. While in Spain, Dirk set up Tapas Tours Barcelona, taking […]

¶ Posted 28 January 2015 † Susan Manlin Katzman § BERLIN § CHOCOLATE § COFFEE § DESSERTS § RESTAURANTS § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Berlin, Berliner Kaffeerösterei, Currywurst, Esszimmer, Food Tours, Gaststätte St. Oberholz, Germany, Konnopke Imbiss, Max Und Moritz, Mogg & Melzer, Ohlala, Preußenpark, Rubens Coffee Lounge, Tim Raue

WORLD’S BEST BEER BARS BY BILL YENNE

Bill Yenne has been writing about beer for a quarter century and is among the world’s leading authorities on beer and brewing history. Then again, he’s an authority on many topics, having contributed to encyclopedias of both world wars as well as having authored more than three dozen non-fiction books with topics ranging from aviation to biography (Julius […]

¶ Posted 24 November 2014 † Susan Manlin Katzman § BARS § BEER § BELGIUM § BEVERAGES § BOOKS § BRUGGE § CALIFORNIA § CZECH REPUBLIC § DRINKS § HAWAII § MUNICH § SAN FRANCISCO § TRAVEL § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: beer, Bill Yenne, Brugge, Czech Republic, Hawaii, Hofbräuhaus München, Kauai Island Brewery, Munich, Saminee De Garre, San Francisco, Toronado, U Fleku Pivovar

THE BERLIN WALL

As you know, after World War II the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France divided Germany into four occupied zones. Berlin was encased in the Soviet section, but due to the importance of the city as the capital of Germany and center of the Nazi regime, the allies also divvied up the […]

¶ Posted 08 November 2014 † Susan Manlin Katzman § BERLIN § MUSEUMS § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Berlin, Berlin Wall, Berlin Wall Memorial, Black Box Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie, East Germany, East Side Gallery, Mauermuseum, Palace of Tears, Tränenpalast, West Germany, World War II

WALD & SCHLOSSHOTEL FRIEDRICHSRUHE

The Wald & Schlosshotel (Forest & Castle Hotel) Friedrichsruhe covers all bases. This award-winning, “five-star, superior” resort hotel is at once historic and contemporary, luxurious and casual, healthful and indulging. Its top-notch facilities provide ideal venues for both business and leisure travelers, gourmets and dieters, and active guests as well as those who just […]

¶ Posted 27 January 2014 † Susan Manlin Katzman § ACCOMMODATIONS § COCKTAILS § Friedrichsruhe § RESORTS § RESTAURANTS § SPAS § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Boris Benecke, Friedrichsruhe, Germany, Gourmet Restaurant, Hohenlohe, Jagerstaub, San Vino, Wald & Schlosshotel

Dinner Jumping in Sasbachwalden

It’s been honored as “the most beautiful town in Germany, “but despite a picture-perfect setting surrounded by hills of vineyards on the sunny side of the Black Forest, and despite being loaded with picturesque timbered houses overflowing with flowers, Sasbachwalden is not just a pretty face. It is also a village dedicated to family and […]