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192 IN SEARCH OF CHEESECAKE

Two years ago, Chef Noel McMeel, known as the
King of Northern Irish cuisine, served a melt-in-
your-mouth luncheon at a conference in Ireland I
was attending. Unfortunately, I had to leave for a
meeting, so I missed his you’ve-never-tasted-any-
thing-this-good cheesecake. At dinner, everyone
was still raving about it. As they say in Ireland, I
was pretty down in the mouth I’d missed it.
204 PARIS ON THE NEISSE RIVER

You don't come to Görlitz by chance. You have to
have good reasons to take the long train journey.
The local trains, with a transfer in Cottbus, need
around three hours from Germany’s capital to its
easternmost city. They come here for the archi-
tecture.

Sharon Whitley Larsen

Sharon Whitley Larsen’s work has appeared in many major publications, in-
cluding Reader’s Digest (and 19 international issues), Chicken Soup for the
Soul books, and Los Angeles Times Magazine. She’s the author of British
Travel Tidbits (2017) and Travel Tidbits (2018), published by Sanbun Pub-
lishers in New Delhi. Sharon also had a two-year travel column “Travel Tid-
bits” in the Union Jack newspaper. Her favorite topic is travel (favorite
destination London).

Maribeth Mellin

Maribeth Mellin is an award-winning journalist whose travel articles have ap-
peared in Endless Vacation Magazine, U-T San Diego and Dallas Morning
News among others. She also travels and writes for several websites including
CNN Travel, Concierge.com and Zagat, and has authored travel books on Peru,
Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Hawaii and California.

Tom Gable

Tom Gable has been writing about wine and travel since 1972 when he was
business editor of the San Diego Evening Tribune and had a weekly syndicated
wine column in more than 400 newspapers. He wrote for The Wine Spectator
and lifestyle and airline publications before moving into a career in public re-
lations. While in PR, he continued as the wine columnist for San Diego Maga-
zine for more than 35 years and a freelance travel writer. After retiring in
March 2023, he now writes wine and travel features for magazines and news-
papers, and blogs at (www.sdwineguru.com).