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In Germany, the Easter Season (following Fasching) is the second most important holiday season of the year. You’ll find decorations outside just like you do at Christmastime and the season is celebrated with just as much gusto… outdoor trees are decorated with plastic eggs and signs of spring all over.
Fasching, Germany’s Carnival Season starts each year on the 11th minute of November 11th, and goes until the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (Shroud Tuesday). It is called the “Fifth Season”, and it usually “goes out with a BANG!”
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, popularly known as The Gardner, houses the art collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Throughout her life she collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects from paintings to rare books from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America.
I think that National Pie Day (January 23rd) should be declared a holiday like Thanksgiving or New Year’s… no work, stores closed, and we all get to stay home and eat pie. Because that hasn’t happened yet, on the third weekend in January I head to Rockland Maine for the Pies on Parade Tour. For the past several years the tour has been put on by the four beautiful inns that make up the Historic Inns of Rockland.
Each December I give myself a break and do something that has become over the years a tradition for me, the Mount Washington Valley New Hampshire Inn to Inn Candy and Cookie Tour. It’s my way to kick back for a weekend and leave the word “diet” out of my vocabulary.
Twirling around high above Kuwait City, the views over the city and the Persian Gulf are amazing. The viewing platform in the largest of the three Kuwait Towers turns 360 degrees every 30 minutes.
