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FORT LAUDERDALE, LOBSTER OMELET, RUM RUNNER COCKTAIL

Remember the Fort Lauderdale of spring break madness—-with paradise lost to swarms of college students hoarding the town? Well hallelujah, today the spring-break kids go elsewhere, leaving Fort Lauderdale’s delights to locals and tourists wanting a comfortable, non-crowded, spring, winter, or anytime warm-weather break. What does the Greater Fort Lauderdale area offer visitors? Easy answer: […]

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 § GERMANY § 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

RED STAR LINE MUSEUM, ANTWERP, BELGIUM

What do Albert Einstein, Vito Corleone, Irving Berlin, Golda Meir and U.S Navy Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover have in common? All immigrated to America on the Red Star Line, an ocean-crossing passenger line transporting some 2.5 million European emigrants to New York and Philadelphia between 1873 and 1934. How do I know this? I visited the […]