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Two Michigan Tourist Meccas: Roscommon and Frankenmuth ... (Patrick Mears, -Germany, 04/02/22 6:54 am) What a wonderful post by my friend, Mendo Henriques, whom I met some years ago in Lisbon!  Your Michigan "tour of Europe" was a great idea.  Thank you for brightening up my day her ...
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A Sailing Trek in the Baltic ... (Cameron Sawyer, USA, 07/20/21 3:46 am) Our sailing this year has taken us so far from a fishing port near Copenhagen (Rødvig) to Wismar in Germany, one of the Hanseatic League cities and at the Southernmost point of the Baltic Sea. ...
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A Dinner with Uwe Krist, Intrepid Travel Journalist ... (Patrick Mears, -Germany, 07/02/21 3:39 am) In John E's comments on my prior post concerning my recent visit to Berlin and its famed Jewish Museum, he asked if I could supply any other details of this trip. The other major highlight ...
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Memories of Berlin in the Early 1990s ... (Tor Guimaraes, USA, 03/31/21 3:37 am) Helen Pitlick's post on Berlin (March 30th) inspired me to share this memory: In my first trip to Berlin in the early 1990s, I was asked to organize a panel on the management of technology f ...
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Favorite World City: Another Vote ... (Harry Papasotiriou, Greece, 03/30/21 3:51 am) My favourite city is New York. It began as New Amsterdam, a company town of the Dutch East India Company, originally inhabited temporarily by rotating company employees. From those early days ...
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Favorite World Cities: My Vote ... (Helen Pitlick, USA, 03/30/21 3:26 am) I certainly haven't traveled as extensively or in-depth as other WAISers, but loved Berlin when I visited a couple of years ago! It felt like the right mix of cosmopolitan and provincial, sophisti ...
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