Last month, Oprah and Obama were in Copenhagen to push Chicago’s failed Olympic bid. Obama arrived and returned home on the same day; Oprah stayed in the exceptionally pricey Karen Blixen suite at D’Angleterre. Fortunately, Oprah has money to burn in what Mercer’s Cost of Living Index cites as the world’s 7th most expensive city. [...]
Nearly two decades since the Iron Curtain opened, this metropolis of 3.4 million embraces modern life on the cutting edge. The city’s free-spirited ambiance is flush with constant change and an exciting appeal for visitors.
Over lunch at Berlin’s trendy Restaurant Diekmann at Weinhaus Huth, Nicole Röbel tells a story that grandparents might tell their grandchildren.
Nicole Röbel, who represents Berlin’s official tourism department, lists five things visitors must do to say they’ve truly been to Berlin.
In Hamburg on a Beatles tour. They played 281 concerts here between 1960 and 1962 before becoming sensationally famous in 1963. The sign reads that the Beatles lived here, in St. Pauli, in 1960. The two-hour tour is conducted by Stefanie Hempel, a local musician, www.myspace.com/stefaniehempel Posted from my Blackberry.
Where In The World? Take your desktop globe for a spin or pull out your atlas and cast your eyes on Europe. Look north, not south, to find the cruising region known as the Baltic. Even experienced travelers sometimes confuse the Baltic with the Balkans, The two regions could not be more different. The Balkans [...]
