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“We wanted to raise the art of living well.”    – Robert Mondavi A glorious June weekend at the the home of Barry and Jennifer Waitte in Yountville, CA, and their Tamber Bey Winery in Napa Valley’s northern reach at Calistoga. Vineyards. Pampered, praised, … Continue reading →

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”      – French proverb Paris – Les Awards Newest pan-gender fashion trend: Male or female – doesn’t seem to matter, just throw a skirt over a pair of pants and sashay … Continue reading →

“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.” -John Cage What’s changed since you were in London? Hipsters everywhere. Hipsters on bikes everywhere. High quality food and food chains everywhere. Construction everywhere. The official urban bird is the … Continue reading →

  “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’ – John F. Kennedy   Berlin, devastated by Allied bombs, punished by … Continue reading →

If you come from Paris to Budapest, you think you are in Moscow; If you go from Moscow to Budapest, you think you are in Paris. -Gyorgy Ligeti Albert’s salon. 36 tulips in our bedroom. “Heidi” chocolate from Romania. Szechenyi … Continue reading →

“A representational photograph says, ‘this is what Vienna looked like.’ An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, ‘this is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it’.” – David DuChemin   High drama at the Spanish … Continue reading →

“Traveling…leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta Desperate to return our Lancia before the 3-day Easter shutdown, we race to the tiny car rental outpost at the Bolzano Airport and discover it shuttered. Perplexed once … Continue reading →

“Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.” -Anna Akhmatova The Oriental Bar at the Metropole Hotel in Venice offers shelter from the chilly wind off the Adriatic. Entering, we are in a Bogart movie … Continue reading →

“Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.”                                                             … Continue reading →

“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. -Thomas Jefferson Paris is rainy. We are not taking it personally – just different hues for the eye and camera. Our first task after … Continue reading →