Curious Traveler

Christine gets curious about Szczecin, Poland. Highlights include: Castle of the Dukes of Pomerania, the National Museum, Stare Miasto Square, Tower of the Seven Cloaks, Kasprowicz Park, Willa Lentza Manor House.

Christine gets curious about Poznań, Poland. Highlights include: Old Market Square, Rogalin Palace, an archaeological site, Poznań Cathedral and tombs, the Poznań goat legend, Zamek Cultural Center, Enigma Cipher Center, and the Poznań Croissant Museum.

Christine gets curious about Utrecht, Netherlands. Utrecht's Golden Age, its unique canal-carved city plan, its ancient Roman limes, goes on a beautiful canal boat tour, visits Dom Cathedral and DOMUnder, a unique underground look at the city's foundations, and lives like a royal at Kasteel de Haar, the largest castle in the Netherlands.

Christine gets curious in Lyon, France. She wanders through the secret traboules, used by the French resistance, explores its ancient Roman origins on Fourvière Hill, visits the breathtaking Basilica of Notre Dame of Fourvière and finds out why Lyon is the capital of French gastronomy by tasting her way through the Les Halles food market.

Christine gets curious about Regensburg, Germany. Highlights: Regensburg's Roman roots as Radasbona; a curious window in its town hall, the Goliath House, Regensburg Cathedral & the Stone Bridge. Then she visits Eilsbrunn for the Guiness World Record holder for the oldest permanently open inn; then back to Regensburg to learn a traditional bead-stitching art form.

Christine gets curious about the Franconia region of Germany. Stops include: Nuremberg, and its medieval landmarks, including the Imperial Castle, the Schöner Brunnen fountain, the Frauenkirche church, Würzburg Palace, Old Main Bridge, its famous poet; then she visits a Michelin-starred restaurant to experience an 'aroma library', and finally, visits one of the legendary Franconian vineyards.

One of the oldest and most historic medieval towns along the Romantic Road. Highlights: Bavarian storybook architecture, Town Hall, the Meistertrunk legend, St. Jakob's Church and its Reimenschneider altar, medieval walls, Rothenburg monastery museum with caryatids of virtues and vices.

Christine gets curious about Upper Bavaria, Linderhof Palace, Mittenwald and Munich. She explores the history of 'Mad' King Ludwig and his many castles, the Lohengrin swan knight legend, the legacy of the Wittelsbach Dynasty, the storybook village of Mittenwald, and the Bavarian tradition of lüftlmalerei mural art, and how it continues in some very modern and very curious ways.

Christine gets curious about the beautiful Allgäu region and medieval town of Füssen in Bavaria, Germany. Highlights include the St. Mang Monastery and its baroque library and Prince's Hall and Hohes Schloss, the high castle. Then she makes cheese with some Allgäu cheesemakers and then does a headstand with a 5th generation cowbell blacksmith who also happens to be an expert yoga instructor.