TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Travel: Looking Forward to Paris, Berlin, Heidelberg, Frankfurt

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Travel: Looking Forward to Paris, Berlin, Heidelberg, Frankfurt

I'm planning a trip to Paris, Berlin, Hiedelberg and Frankfurt and I'm looking forward to this trip.

I love Paris! And as far as Germany is concerned, the only German place I visited was Baden-Baden.
What I'd like to do, and I'll blog more about when and if this happens, is to follow the footsteps of Jose Rizal, the Philippines' National Hero.

Rizal lived from 1861-1896. A renaissance man, he was a novelist, poet, ophthalmologist, painter, sculptor, revolutionary. His two novels, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, served as the catalyst to spur on the Philippine revolution against Spain. He was executed by the Spanish Army on December 30, 1896.

Rizal had visited many countries, including France and Germany. Here are some sites in Paris and Germany with markers honoring Jose Riza.

Here also are two pictures of Jose Rizal and friends in Paris.

But this won't happen right away, so be patient, dear Readers, as I must learn to be.

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Tags: travel, tourism, France, Germany, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Heidelberg, Jose Rizal, Cecilia Brainard

This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.