Welcome April!! I've decided to keep offering my free downloadable desktop wallpaper calendars of my artwork every month. April's calendar has a photo featured from the Keukenhof in Holland.
Hopefully April will bring out the sun and the warmth that has been trying to elude us. I think most of March I heard of it snowing some where. Here in Germany it was rainy most of the time. I am looking forward to a little bit of sunshine so I can go out adventuring again!
The Keukenhof is Holland's Tulip festival. Last month I talked about my trip to the Netherlands and […]
I have always loved the St. Patrick's Day holiday. To me it was a fun day full of interesting traditions, entertaining parades, and yummy food....and the color green. As an adult I have learned that I have a little bit of Irish in my family heritage so it also became a day for me to understand more about the Irish history and traditions. A couple of years ago I had the chance to travel to Ireland for St. Patrick's Day. It was amazing.
In planning the trip I wondered, "Isn't St. Patrick's Day more of an Irish American thing?" Well […]
I love summers in Europe, there are local festivals all summer long celebrating anything and everything. I had the chance to attend a small Renaissance festival on a small lake here in Germany. They had booths full of wine, beer, food, and hand crafts, there was even a message booth. It was a great chance to try some local food and homemade wine products. You even had the chance to buy some ceramic mugs and wine cups.
People were dressed up in costume and they had entertainment in the form of fire dancers and fire spitters. The fire performers were my […]
