There will be no photos of me wearing the miner’s outfit I donned for the salt mine tour in Berchtesgaden, Germany, as the ensemble is not exactly befitting the royal status of your Weekend Duchess. However, sliding down the shafts well beneath the surface of the earth with a crowd of German family tourists was easily one of my favorite travel experiences, unglamorous as it was. Sometimes your duchess weekends at Lake Como searching for George Clooney, but sometimes she needs to tunnel into the salt mines, too!
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Photography and history in Clervaux, Luxembourg
Just a few hours outside of Paris (thanks to the speedy TGV), I found myself with two days in Luxembourg. As my hotel was decidedly not befitting my duchess status, I decided to spend as little time in it as possible, and I took a day trip to the tiny town of Clervaux. I would […]
Owning Orvieto: a secluded Italian escape
I sat on the steps across from the duomo in Orvieto, munching contentedly on olive oil breadstick nuggets from the wine store and admiring the way the light changed the face of the cathedral. It was like watching the colors of Ayers Rock change at sunset, translated into the ancient gilded luxury that seems natural […]