the big fat world

If Vietnam were your leg, Mui Ne would be located right around your ankle, just above Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Not a hot spot on many travel itineraries like Hue or Hoi An, but Mui Ne houses the most amazing martian like red sand dunes that you won;t see anywhere else.
Pair the natural beauty [...]

In my 2nd installment of OMG, it’s a Weiner Dog in…., I want to feature my favorite long dogs in my favorite country, Poland. In Poland the dachshund is so revered, they hold a doxie parade in Krakow (link is Polish but the photos aren’t) every Aug/Sept. Poland’s jamnik (dachshund) (yom-nik) is all around as [...]

Krakow is the most beautiful city in Poland. It’s central square square is unmatched, it has one of the oldest universities in Europe, and thanks to luck, it was not destroyed during WWII.

Paris, oh Paris. Literature and fantasies live up to this city being the most beautiful in the world. She has been through a lot throughout the years with civil wars and foreign occupations. Just think that Hitler ordered Major General Dietrich von Choltitz to destroy Paris if the Allies forced the Nazis out. Much to [...]

Going to Auschwitz and its sister camp, Auschwitz-Bikenau is a extremely painful experience. The first time I went was in 1998 and returned again in 2007.
To get to camps, you must go by way of Krakow and take a train to Oswiecim (ohshe-venshum). From there you can take local buses or pay a few zloty [...]

Anyone who knows me knows I have an unhealthy obsession with dachshunds. It started in childhood with 6 (yes, 6, my mother was a bit of a nut about them too) and continues today. My current tally is 3 (tweenie red, dapple, and chunky brown), a x-mas present from ‘guess who?’ my mother.
In saying this, [...]