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Norway: Bergen and Bryggen

Our tour guide said that Bergen, a port city on the west coast of Norway, has attracted outsiders for centuries, both as traders and settlers. Then she made the point with her own story: Although our guide was born and raised in Bergen of Norwegian forebears, she said DNA

2023-09-13T09:52:21-04:00September 10th, 2023|My Travel Corner|

Germany: A bird’s-eye view

Hamburg boasts an exotic new concert facility, opened in early 2017. It is a huge modern glass structure that sits atop a former warehouse. It is popularly known as the “wave” because its roofline is indeed wavy. And this wave-sitting-on-a-warehouse is perched right at water’s edge in Hamburg’s harbor, on

2018-06-16T12:44:57-04:00June 16th, 2018|My Travel Corner|
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