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Sharon Hudgins is an award-winning writer of six books and more than 1,000 articles published worldwide. Her food and travel writing has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Saveur, Gastronomica, German Life, Russian Life, The World and I, Chile Pepper, Fiery Foods & Barbecue, major newspapers in the United States, and periodicals in Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic. For several years she was the food columnist for The Stars and Stripes newspaper in Europe, and for 28 years the food columnist for German Life magazine in the United States. A former editor of Chile Pepper magazine, she has also worked as a cookbook editor, photographer, filmmaker, university professor, and lecturer on international tours offered by National Geographic Expeditions, Smithsonian Journeys, Viking Ocean Cruises, Silversea, and Oceania.

Sharon Hudgins has lived in nine countries of Europe and Asia and traveled in 64 countries across the globe. Her European experience includes living in Germany for 15 years, as well as in several European capitals and small towns from northern Scotland to southern Spain to the Greek island of Crete. She is the author of an award-winning cookbook about the regional cuisines of Spain, and her personal memoir, The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East, won two national awards for travel and food writing.

Megan Kudla is a writer, editor, producer, and artist. She is a producer and production manager for national television’s Family Travel with Colleen Kelly on PBS. She is also producer and co-host of the Round Trip with Colleen Kelly talk show and podcast. Megan has written for digital publications such as Family Travel with Colleen Kelly, Round Trip with Colleen Kelly, SheBuysTravel, European Traveler, and See Chicago Dance. Her work spans the likes of local performance art and Broadway in Chicago reviews to domestic and international travel articles. She hopes to inspire those who wish to solo travel the world, as well as support art as a way to engage with local cultures. You can find more information at megankudla.com.

Megan Kudla explores the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos in Córdoba, Spain.

Randy Mink, senior editor of Premier Travel Media, has written travel articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites for more than 50 years. Premier Travel Media, based in suburban Chicago, publishes Leisure Group Travel, a magazine for the U.S. group travel market, and other travel trade publications and websites. In addition, Randy also writes for Canadian World Traveller magazine, contributing three or four features for each quarterly issue. He is a longtime member of the Society of American Travel Writers and Midwest Travel Journalists Association, and has won many writing awards given by those organizations.

Randy’s travel industry experience includes working in the offices of student travel companies—doing everything from selling European train passes to writing itineraries and arranging hotel pizza parties. Randy also has been a tour director for senior and student groups. He has been to more than 70 countries and taken 48 cruises.

Randy Mink samples tapas in Salamanca, Spain.

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Reformer Georg Spalatin (1484-1545) and priest Martin Luther (1483-1546) discussed theology and plans for the Reformation at Spalatinhaus in Torgau, Germany.