Les Jardins du Musée de Montmartre
admin2020-04-02T15:53:15-07:00Visitors enter the Montmartre Museum via a rose-draped arbor. FRANCE Paris - The basilica Sacré-Coeur, the eye-popping, white wedding cake atop the city’s [...]
Visitors enter the Montmartre Museum via a rose-draped arbor. FRANCE Paris - The basilica Sacré-Coeur, the eye-popping, white wedding cake atop the city’s [...]
A garden, perhaps, lay hidden under 70-years of debris. (Photo: Heligan Gardens LTD.) ENGLAND Cornwall - It was February 16, 1990. Only the [...]
An Alps-backed setting, fairytale villages and a benign climate have long contributed to Lake Constance’s reputation as a compelling Southern Germany travel destination. To that [...]
IRELAND Dublin - Margaret Gormley, Park Superintendent for St. Stephens Green, Ireland’s oldest public park, has the garden’s spring color palate well underway. In the [...]
GERMANY Leipzig - “I’ll tell you all about the monuments as we go along,” Sylvia Kolbe suggested as we set out to walk what was [...]
CROATIA Lopud - There were three possibilities: I was waiting at the wrong harbor, had drastically misunderstood the ferry’s schedule, or was the sole person [...]
SWEDEN Stockholm - The Vasa was a magnificent ship. Decorated with symbolic sculptures and carvings, gold leaf on its poop, bronze guns polished to a [...]
Stepping into a storybook ... SWEDEN Stockholm - Had I stepped into a storybook? Cute-as-a-button little cottages painted in shades of red, yellow, white and [...]
ITALY Sicily - While others search out museums and cathedrals when traveling, I search out gardens, looking for those that could be no other place [...]
ENGLAND London - There is a yearly check Rosie Atkins, curator of London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, never fails to write and get in the mail [...]