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The canals in Copenhagen absolutely amazed me. I had no idea. It was almost disorienting. One expects and knows about the canals in Amsterdam and, of course, Venice, but Wow…….the canals in the largest city in Denmark both took me by surprise and delighted me at the same time....
by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger During two month-long visits to Prague (Czech Republic), I always enjoyed encountering new and various designs in the ubiquitous cobblestones. I found myself enchanted by them on my first visit (2008), and was able to add to my collection of photos on my...
by Judy Bereza, Guest Blogger Forget all your assumptions about hiking in Switzerland. You don’t need to be a fitness freak; in fact, if you can walk, you can be comfortably transported to the top of jaw dropping peaks, with perfect emerald valleys laid out below. And, if you happen to get...
I am an absolute sucker for castles. When my husband and I got married a lifetime ago, we did the obligatory Europe on $5 to $10 a day trip, using the money we got as wedding gifts. We spent the first two weeks traveling up and down England and Scotland visiting a “castle a day.” […]
Lord Byron wrote to his Mother from Sintra calling it, “The village is perhaps in every respect, the most delightful in Europe.” Whether this is still true or not remains to be seen, but it is a lovely spot. The tiny town, about an hour outside of Lisbon, felt to me like Disneyland, only it...
Mosterio dos Jeronimos Don’t go to Lisbon without visiting two major tourist destinations—a monastery and a museum, an easy walk from each other outside of the main Lisbon area. The Mosterio dos Jeronimos, the grandest building in Lisbon, is built over the site of a small chapel raised...
If you go to Lisbon, be sure to take hiking boots. At least day hikers, the kind for up and down and uneven surfaces. The narrow and sometimes treacherous streets in the old part of City of Seven Hills are steep, turning, twisting revealing great slivers of the Tagus River and urban landscape....
When we checked into our boutique hotel in the old part of Lisbon about a month ago, our charming dark eyed host greeted us with, “This is your lucky day. We’re having a party tonight and you are invited.” My ears perked up. Hmmm. I love a party. The hotel, Bairro Alto Hotel, located on...
When I tell people that my husband and I love Paris and have been to the City of Light probably a dozen times, I often get asked, “Is there something you do on every trip? ” In fact, this happened recently when we were in Paris, standing in line out side Sainte Chapelle,...
I have been editing photos from our recent Paris trip and discovered even more to share about riding the Batobus. It’s more than getting from here to there. If you are new to DesignDestinations.org and haven’t read about the Batobus, here are links to two posts. Mooning the Batobus and...