WE PARKED OUR BUS JUST OUTSIDE THE STAR-SHAPED DEFENCE EMBANKMENTS AND WALKED INTO THE PICTURESQUE TOWN, just twenty minutes' drive outside of Amsterdam. A large bronze statue outside the first church we came to told us we were headed in…
PRAGUE! ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CITIES... built on a bend in the river whose name I can never remember - the Vltava. The Charles Bridge lined by statues and artists, the cathedral and the castle on the hill, the Old…
WORD HAS JUST COME IN THAT THE YOUNG WOMAN WE HAVE REFERRED TO AS NATASHA IN PAST WW'S GOES ON TRIAL THIS FRIDAY. Al Akimoff, our director for Eastern Europe reports that the situation looks nasty, and calls for special…
WARTBURG CASTLE STANDS HIGH ON A ROCKY MOUNTAIN, close to the former Iron Curtain in Eastern Germany. Our bus slowly climbed its way up the tree-covered access road towards the collection of stone towers and half-timber buildings comprising the castle.…
WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION WE THREADED OUR WAY THROUGH THE STREETS AND CANALS OF AMSTERDAM towards the Biblical Museum. This would be our first of many museum visits during the two-week Share the Heritage tour. We had gathered in De Poort,…
