by Marlene Berlin When my husband Jim and I decided to visit Portugal this summer, we didn’t know we would join large numbers of tourists vacationing there. We also learned […]
Dispatches from Riyadh: To market, to market for camels and dates
Laurie Sieminski is a neighbor and master quilter who is spending four years in Riyadh with her husband Adam while he serves as president of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies […]
Meet Your Neighbors update – from Riyadh: “Life Here Comes With a Warning”
On July 16th, the high in DC reached 98 degrees and what may have been the hottest temperature we’ll see all summer. In Saudi Arabia, that would have been seen […]
Neighbors Recommend: Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
David Cohen, a reader and frequent contributor, writes: “In honor of the New Year, permit me to recommend a day trip to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Maryland, […]
Forest Hills resident’s photo chosen for national Parkinson’s awareness calendar
Fantastic news about a Forest Hills Connection contributor and neighbor: Forest Hills resident Pat Davies is getting creative in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. A photograph she took of women […]
Where we go: Biking in Bali
I cannot keep up with Jan and Jack Buresh’s travel schedule. When we caught up with each other at a neighbor’s party, they told me they had gone back to […]
Memories of Prague, 1986
by Margery Elfin It was summer 1986 and we had decided to go to Eastern Europe. The Cold War was mostly over, although it would be three more years before […]
My schmatte: Lost and found in Prague this summer
by Marlene Berlin Somewhere between the Prague airport and our lodgings on the edge of Old Town, I lost my light gray jacket, my schmatte. That’s a Yiddish term for […]
What I did this summer: Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean Sea
by David Jonas Bardin Tel Aviv is a Mediterranean city which my wife Livia and I rarely visited when we lived in Jerusalem 40 years ago, and only briefly since […]
Summer Travel Scrapbook: Hiking The Dolomites
This article was originally published in December, 2012. by Annette Aburdene After years of walking in the Swiss and Western Alps, it was exciting to be back last September in […]