Travel experiences, memories and stories about exploring this great planet of ours

Salsarita’s Fresh Cantina 504B Trinity St. Austin, TX 78701 * (512) 436-2739 tel Salsarita’s Fresh Cantina 504B Trinity St. Austin, TX 78701 * (512) 436-2739 tel A relatively new Tex-Mex Chipotle’s-like fresh, organic, and healthy alternative cafeteria near 6th street in downtown Austin. Selections from tacos, large burritos, Fajitas, and salads are available … with [...]

Woodpecker’s outside of Oberhausen, Germany Zur Grafenmühle 147, 46244 Bottrop, Germany – 02045/410048 * www.woodpeckers-roadhouse.de A pretty cool roadhouse aux German interpretation ‘American’-style. Very pleasant pub/restaurant with an extremely friendly staff. The ambiance has much American memorabilia and supposedly the restaurant has very good food – and big burgers. We went only for drinks the [...]

Reaklif – a historic monument just outside of Warns, Netherlands in the Nijefurd municipality of Fryslân province; is a symbol of Fryslân independence and their battle with the Dutch. It’s a monumental rock, that tells the tale when Count Willem IV of Holland tried to invade Fryslân in 1345. It was on this spot and [...]

Tersoal, Friesland, The Nederlands Boarnsterhim municipality, Fryslân province Tersoal (in Dutch it’s Terzool), us a quaint little charming village in the Boarnsterhim municipality in Fryslân that used to be in the former municipality of Rauwerderhem, northeast of the city of Sneek, in the region known as the “Lege geaën” (see Poppenwier), with a Hervormde and [...]

Berlin & Berliners … The key to Berlin – is old and new – to be a Berliner, is for anyone who arrives and remains there. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, one of the most influential individuals in shaping the city, was born in Neuruppin (Brandenburg) is considered a Berliner since he’s buried there and the city’s [...]

The Village of Kettlewell :: Kettlewell, (Yorkshire Dales) – England :: A thriving market town known or it’s scarecrow festival and it’s Calendar Girls. It rests between Grassington, Kilnsey, Conistone, and Starbotton lies the village of Kettlewell in Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England. At the feet of the Great Whernside & Buckden Pike where the River [...]

When my boyfriend, Stick, was visiting me in China, I had to work one day and so he went by himself to the little shop next to my apartment to get some soap. His Chinese is completely non-existent, so he ended up playing a long, complicated game of charades with the shopkeeper. An hour or [...]