by Michele Genthon | Oct 13, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
Vienna was bookended by two fabulous meals. The first night we ate tafelspitz at Plachutta’s restaurant. This is a dinner of boiled meat served with horseradish. For our version, the meal came to the table in the pot. First you ladle out a bowl of the broth and...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 13, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
Some of the readers of this blog do not know my husband, Gary Zimmerman, so I will introduce him to you. A retired chemistry professor and university CEO, he spends his retirement running a genealogy library. In addition he has some personal clients and one of those...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 1, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
You have to love a city where they serve prosecco with salami and pickles for breakfast. Salzburg is a charming city under any circumstances, devoted to Mozart and his fellow musicians, Even the Archbishop Dresses for the Festival but we happened to arrive for St....
by Michele Genthon | Sep 22, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
We traveled to Bavaria for a very special event, one I must absorb and turn over in my mind before I write about it. As part of that voyage back in history, we spent four days in the Bavarian Alps. Here’s a short photo journal of that trip. We stopped in Mittenwald,...
by Michele Genthon | Sep 18, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
–You know you’re traveling when your body clock keeps saying it’s time to sleep, it’s time to eat, and the times don’t correspond at all with where you are. –You know you’re in a foreign country when you go to church and the priest’s reflection is...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 27, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
A Singing Culture One Sunday, we went to a neighborhood church in Spain, to find there were no instruments to accompany the hymns. This was a bit disappointing because the church had a beautiful organ (at least to the eye) that sat untouched. The voices of the...
