My husband, Ed, and I love learning about the history and culture of a country so tend to gravitate toward natural history and folk or open-air museums. In April 2012 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, we toured the Openluchtmuseum (Sept. ’12, pg. 53) and on another day enjoyed the Zuiderzee Museum (Wierdijk 12-22, 160 1LA Enkhuizen, NL; phone +31 [0] 228 351111, fax 351212).
The location of the subject of November’s photo is in Valencia, Spain.
(Third of three parts)
Above Zermatt, Switzerland, the Glacier Palace (P.O. Box 378, 3920 Zermatt, Switzerland; phone +41 27 966 81 00, fax +41 27 966 81 01) is a 990-square-meter “palace” (sometimes a wedding venue) hollowed out of the surrounding glacier. Attractions inside the palace include ice sculptures, a 10-meter-long ice slide and a scenic viewpoint.
The palace is accessible year-round from two elevators behind the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise cable car station. Admission is CHF8 ($8).
by Lynn Remly; Hudson, OH
They were “only” Stone Age ancestors, yet they produced the most refined art the world has seen within the far depths of winding caves, lighted only by torch and oil. How? Why? When?
(Second of three parts)
The subject of September’s photo can be found within the city of Gondar in Ethiopia. It is one of the 17th-century palaces in the Royal Enclosure.
11-day / 10-night tour of IRELAND and NORTHERN IRELAND. Departures, May-October 2013. Highlights: In Northern Ireland, waterbus cruise to Devenish Island / in Ireland, Dublin / Ballynahinch Castle / ferry to Inishbofin Island / Galway cathedral / Cliffs of Moher / Ring of Kerry / Torc Waterfall / Old Midleton Distillery, where Jameson Irish Whiskey is made / 12th-century Kilkenny Castle. Land, from $3,285. Single supp., $750. Brendan Vacations (Los Angeles, CA; 800 / 421-8446, www.brendanvacations.com).
by Charlotte Temple, Framingham, MA
by Bill Altaffer, San Diego, CA