From My Mental Library

...my sister and I boarded the bus from Ripon to Harrogate, where we took the train to Leeds, where we took another train to Manchester Airp...

...my sister and I will be up in the air, on our way to Manchester Airport. From there, first the Transpennine Express, then a local train...

So far, summer here in my area (south Germany) has been what could very well become another record summer after the "Jahrhundertsommer...

Those of you who have been reading my blog for some years have probably come across the word "Spätzle" before; it is a traditional...

In July, we had family visiting here for two weeks: One of my cousins and her 10-year-old son stayed with my sister for part of their summer...

George Rawlinson's "History of Phoenicia" was first published in 1889 (mine was, of course, a free ebook from Amazon's K...

Have you heard of "White Dinners", or "Dîner en blanc"?  The idea comes originally from Paris. Wikipedia calls it an ...