Coffee Culture

Sugar or the fake stuff? Cream or milk? There’s lots of personal preferences for a cup of coffee but spin the globe and the coffee culture nuances get nitty-grittier—and not just on the serving. The blending, roasting and grinding of the bean to the time of day coffee’s drunk or even the nibbles accompanying it Read More …

Plaguing Europe

Ring-a-ring-a roses. A pocket full of posies. Atishoo, atishoo. We all fall down. Folklorists say that this children’s nursery rhyme originated when the Great Plague ravaged London in the mid 17th century. With symptoms of red rings on the skin, people clutching flowers to fend off the disease (remember, this was the old days) and Read More …

My Favorite: The Reichstag

Our aim with these My Favorite: posts is to give our well-traveled Explorica employees a chance to share some of their favorite travel experiences with all of you. This week’s my favorite comes from Senior Program Consultant Alyssa Geiger.  Take it away, Alyssa… I lived in Berlin for six months a few years ago, and Read More …