“Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” Elie Wiesel We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]" Dachau (First Nazi Concentration Camp) Budapest Holocaust Museum, Berchtesgaden (Eagle Nest), East Berlin
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Berlin Zoo, Olympic Stadium ("At the 1936 Summer Olympics, Owens won international fame with four gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4x100 meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the games and as such has been credited with "single-handedly defying Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy."), Charlottenburg Palace
Great Coffee places: Café Westberlin, Companion Coffee, Five Elephant, Chapter One and Double Eye. Amalienbourg Palace, Sroget, Christiansbourg Palace, Library, Nyhavn
Top Ten Coffee Shops: Estate Coffee, The Coffee Collective Jægersborggade, KAFFE, Kaffeplantagen, Kafferiet, Risteriet Studiestræde, Riccos Istedgade, Sort Kaffe & Vinyl, Kent Kaffe Laboratorium St Paul Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, Houses of Parliament
Tea and pastries at The Modern Pantry, Orange Pekoe or coffee at Rapha CC , Tap Coffee (Soho) and Workshop Coffee Co Munich, Germany (New Town Hall/Neus Rathaus) ; Pisa, Italy (Duomo, Battistero, Leaning Tower, Cathedral of St. Ranieri); Lisbon, Potugal
Colosseum, Pyramid of Caius Cestius, Trevi Fountain ( a shadow of me on top), Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, Roman Forum, Temple of Hadrian, St. Peter's Basilica/Vatican City, Spanish Steps and Piazza di Spagna
I love the film Three Coins in a Fountain. Best coffee places: The Cappuccino Bar, Domiziano, Bramante’s Cloister Café Bistrot and Rosati Emilie's Cookies and Petit Pois Et Clafoutis in Nice are great cafes for coffee, latte, tea and sweets
Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, and Centre Georges Pompidou
You do not have to worry about finding a cafe in Paris to get coffee. They are everywhere. |
AuthorI love traveling and witnessing history. Of course, I have to find a coffee shop; so I can have my latte. CategoriesArchives
January 2025
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