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EUROPE  
Belgium Bruges, Brussels, la Grande Place, beer such as la Mort Subite, a monk brewer in Orval/ Trappist beer, brasseries such as la Roue d'Or, restaurants - Comme Chez Soi with chef Pierre Wynant and l'Ecailler of Palais Royale with chef Attilio Bossobars, La Quincaillerie, beer bars
Czech Republic

Prague, diverse subjects, Charles Bridge, beer, clocks, Old Town

France

see separate page

Germany

Berlin: diverse subjects; fall of the Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Place

Bavaria: dirndls, lederhosen, Bavarian costumes, oompah bands, beerfests, biergartens, landscapes

Black Forest (fasching, carnival)

Frankfurt

Hamburg: port

Dresden: overviews, Elbe river, Zwinger Palace, World War II ruins

Holland

Amsterdam, Keukenhof national tulip park, cheese making, Alkmaar and Gouda cheese markets/shops, marijuana – growing, smoking, coffee shops, hashish, bongs, grow shops - windmills, dairy cows, herring, smoked eel/eel auction, bicycling, canals, fishing ports, boats, traditional houses in Amsterdam and villages such as Broek an der Waterland, Dutch people and families

Monte Carlo Louis XV) and La Bastide de Moustiers
Italy

Rome: diverse subjects, ice cream, market Campo dei Fiori, the Vatican

Parma: Piazza Garibaldi, making of Parma ham, prosciutto and Parmesan cheese, pastas, sauces

Friuli: San Danièle hams

Milan: duomo

Piedmont: wine - Barbaresco (Francesco Marengo), Ca Romé, Chianti, Barolo, tastings, harvests, Angelo Gaya in his cellars, chefs Cesare Gioccone and Giorgio Rocca, landscapes, hazelnut orchards, mushrooms, porcini, farmhouses, Alba white truffles, the Langhe, truffle hunting, vineyards, nebbiano grapes,

Venice: canals, gondolas

Sicily: Cefalu, fishing port, boats

Modena: duomo, balsamic vinegar, Balsamico de Modena: barrels in the attics

Tuscany: Diverse sites, hot sulfur baths (Saturnia, San Giminiano, Montepulciano, Montalcino, Chianti, Brunello from Montalcino; artisanal Pitigliano, San Quirico d'Orcia), vineyards, Chianti tastings, ceramacist Romano Innocenti, landscapes, Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Vinci (his home town)

Florence: Ponte Vecchio, San Lorenzo market, Duomo

Siena: Il Palio, medieval costumes and parade, the horse race, Leaning Tower of Pisa

Cinque Terre: Liguria, grape harvests above Manarola and Corniglia

Portofino: Splendido Hotel, yachts, harbor, Portovenere, Gulf of the Poets, Tellaro, Fiaschino, Cinqueterre, Via d'Amore, Riomaggiore, Manarola, Vernazza, Corniglia, Monterosso del Mare, wine, grape harvest, sun bathers, harbors

More: hill town Rochetta Nervina, fishing harbor at Comogli, Imperia Valley, Dolcedo and the olive harvest, virgin cold-pressed olive oil, food production

Portugal

Algarve, Porto- the Eiffel Bridge, cellars, glasses, port wine, Vila de
Gaia, Fado singing, Vila Nova de Gaia, azuzuelos (decorative tiles) - Duoro Valley vineyards, grapes, cellars - Duoro River, the town of Ama

Spain see separate page
Switzerland

Diverse subects, Basel

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