Travel – Diary of a Mad Hausfrau

by Lora Wiley-Lennartz

From iconic landmarks to secret escapes, find travel guides, tips, and stories that inspire your next trip.

TRAVEL – GERMANY

Travel - 3 Diverse Colonge Museums - Farina house — 3 DIVERSE COLOGNE MUSEUMS

Travel - Munich Germany — 9 NOTABLE MUNICH MAINSTAYS

Travel - Berlin Germany — TRACING BERLIN’S TURBULENT PAST

Travel - 8 Beautiful Bodensee Stops — 8 BEAUTIFUL BODENSEE STOPS

Travel - TRAVELING GERMANY’S MECKLENBURG LAKELAND BY HOUSEBOAT — TRAVELING GERMANY’S MECKLENBURG LAKELAND BY HOUSEBOAT

Travel - Prussian Castles — 2 MUST-SEE PRUSSIAN CASTLES

Travel - Aachen — AACHEN’S ANCIENT IMPERIAL CHARM

Travel - Mecklenburg Lake District — GERMANY’S MECKLENBURG LAKE DISTRICT BY HOUSEBOAT

Düsseldorf Germany — DÜSSELDORF’S DIVERSE MUSEUM DISCOVERIES

Krefeld’s Castles, Silk, and Secrets — DÜSSELDORF’S DIVERSE MUSEUM DISCOVERIES

City Hall Bonn Germany — BEAUTIFUL BONN – BAROQUE & BEYOND

TRAVEL – FRANCE

Paris Bridge View of the Seine at Sunset — 10 TOP PARIS STOPS

Houseboating Through the Alsace — HOUSEBOATING THROUGH THE ALSACE

Chinon — CHINON FRANCE

Fete du Citron Menton France — CITRUSY MAGICAL MENTON FRANCE

Travel - Saone France — TRAVELING FRANCE’S SAÔNE RIVER BY HOUSEBOAT: 4 FAVORITE STOPS

Travel - Meandering in Majestic Monaco — MEANDERING IN MAJESTIC MONACO

Travel - Yonne River France — HOUSEBOATING FRANCE’S YONNE RIVER

TRAVEL – ITALY

Travel - Bologna Italy — EATING & EXPLORING BEAUTIFUL BOLOGNA

Travel - Venice Italy — 5 VENTURESOME VENICE STOPS

Travel - STROLLING THOUGH PADUA'S PAST — STROLLING THROUGH PADUA’S PAST

Travel - Milan Where Modernity Meets Masterpieces — MILAN: WHERE MODERNITY MEETS MASTERPIECES

5 Floating city Favorites Venice Scenes — 5 FLOATING CITY FAVORITES

Day trip from Venice Italy — 5 FLOATING CITY FAVORITES

TRAVEL – BELGIUM

Antwerp Belgium — ADMIRING ANTWERP’S AGELESS GEMS

Boat ride bruges belgium — BOUNCING AROUND BEAUTIFUL BRUGES

Travel - Ghent Belgium — 6 STOPS IN GORGEOUS GHENT

TRAVEL – SCOTLAND

Exploring Inverness Scotland - Bagpipers — EXPLORING INVERNESS SCOTLAND

Edinburgh Castle Scotland — 6 SENSATIONAL EDINBURGH EXPERIENCES

6 Gorgeous Glasgow Stops - Glasgow Botanical Gardens — 6 GORGEOUS GLASGOW STOPS

TRAVEL- MEXICO

floating gardens of xochimilco — 9 MARVELOUS MEXICO CITY STOPS

Puerto Morelos Mexico — EATING PUERTO MORELOS, MEXICO

Socorro Islands Mexico — DIVING THE SOCORRO ISLANDS, MEXICO

Totoda Santos Mexico — MEETING MR. MARGARITA INTODOS SANTOS, MEXICO

TRAVEL – COSTA RICA

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA HIGHLIGHTS

TRAVEL – AUSTRIA

Vienna — 5 FABULOUS VIENNA STOPS

Scenes of Dürnstein, Austria — SCENES OF DÜRNSTEIN, AUSTRIA

Jewish Vienna: Memorial to the Austrian Jewish Victims of the Holocaust — JEWISH VIENNA – MEMORY MATTERS

Vienna’s Treasures — JEWISH VIENNA – MEMORY MATTERS

TRAVEL – SWITZERLAND

FOUR GREAT THINGS TO DO IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — FOUR GREAT THINGS TO DO IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Lausanne Switzerland — SCENES FROM LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

montreux Switzerland — 2 STOPS NOT TO MISS IN MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND

TRAVEL – NETHERLANDS

Maarsen Netherlands — NAVIGATING NETHERLANDS’ CANALS BY HOUSEBOAT

Edam — NAVIGATING NETHERLANDS’ CANALS BY HOUSEBOAT

TRAVEL – CZECH REPUBLIC

Cesky Krumlov — SCENES FROM CESKY KRUMLOV

TRAVEL – SLOVAKIA

Making Plum Poppy Seed Brown Butter Pirohy in Bratislava — MAKING PIROHY IN BRATISLAVA

TRAVEL – USA

Miami View — 6 DELICIOUS MIAMI STOPS

Corning NY — CORNING, NY: SMALL TOWN, BIG CITY APPEAL

TRAVEL – ISRAEL

Rosh Hankira — DAY OF ADVENTURE IN ISRAEL’S GALILEE

Nazareth — NAZARETH: A WHIRLWIND OF DELICIOUS FOOD & WARM HOSPITALITY

Jerusalem — JERUSALEM: THE OTHER CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS

Haifa, Israel — A DAY OF DELICIOUSNESS & DELIGHTS IN HAIFA, ISRAEL

Yad Vashem Israel — A VISIT TO YAD VASHEM

TRAVEL – CARIBBEAN

Travel - Grand Cayman — 7 GREAT THINGS TO DO ON SEVEN MILE BEACH, GRAND CAYMAN

Travel - Virgin Gorda — DRINKING PAINKILLERS IN VIRGIN GORDA

Travel - Belize — 4 EXCEPTIONAL BELIZE CULINARY EXPERIENCES

Travel - Grand Turk — GRAND TURK, TURKS & CAICOS

TRAVEL – EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS MARKETS

Travel - Freiburg Germany — FREIBURG, GERMANY

Travel - Brussels Christmas Tree — BRUSSELS CHRISTMAS MARKETS HAVE INTERNATIONAL FLAIR

Travel - Colmar France — CHRISTMAS MARKETS OF COLMAR, FRANCE

Travel - Cologne Christmas Markets — COLOGNE, GERMANY- CHRISTMAS MARKETS

Travel - Christmas Markets Lausanne Switzerland — CHRISTMAS MARKETS IN LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

Travel - lumaba reeperbahn hamburg — THE SEXIEST CHRISTMAS MARKET IS IN HAMBURG, GERMANY

Travel - Maastricht — MAASTRICHT NETHERLANDS CHRISTMAS MARKET

Travel - Basel Switzerland — CHRISTMAS MARKETS OF BASEL, SWITZERLAND

Travel - Handmade knives Munich Christmas Market — CHRISTMAS MARKETS IN MUNICH, GERMANY

Travel - Strasbourg France — CHRISTMAS MARKETS IN STRASBOURG, FRANCE

Travel - Geneva Switzerland — CHRISTMAS MARKETS OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Travel - Cave Christmas Market Valkenburg Netherlands — CHRISTMAS MARKETS IN HISTORIC CAVES OF VALKENBURG, NETHERLANDS

Travel - Christkind Nuremberg Germany — THE TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS MARKETS OF NUREMBERG, GERMANY

Travel - Montreux Switzerland Christmas Market — CHRISTMAS MARKETS ON THE LAKE IN MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND

Travel - Tollwood Christmas Market Munich Germany — TOLLWOOD – MUNICH’S CHRISTMAS MARKET WITH A CONSCIENCE

Travel - Christmas Market Brussels — MY TOP 10 TIPS WHEN VISITING EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS MARKETS