Floating Through History

For two weeks my husband and I went on a river cruise down the Danube with two other couples who are old friends of ours. On the shore excursions we saw remains of Roman settlements, five-and-six-century-old churches, city centers which survived World War II bombing, city centers that were destroyed and have been rebuilt under…

New England to New Zealand

It's snowing ..... again, here in New England, and to keep from getting cranky and ornery I began to muse on a trip we took with dear friends this January.  We had been planning for 40 years to go to Australia or New Zealand and finally made it.  What follows is, I think, more an…