Four nights and three days in Rome had flown by and it was already time to take our leave of our guesthouse in Prati. We had been fortunate enough to find street parking a couple of blocks away the ...

Our guide had heard that the road between San Christobal and Palenque might be blocked by striking teachers and that was the case. They were striking because they want a pension, which seems fair ...

Dayton isn't on a direct line between Columbus and Cincinnati but it is a good-sized city and I'd heard of it so I wanted to stop long enough to see what it was all about. I had penciled in the ...

We were heading to Puebla, the largest city in the state of Puebla. After some slow traffic in Mexico City, we were soon in green countryside. The Sierra Madre mountains looked beautiful in the ...

The next day we enjoyed two quite different activities. First a vist to the Anthropology Musem, and then a fun ride on gondola type boat in an ancient canal system. I felt our visit to the National ...

After visiting the Saxon Gardens, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Piłsudski Square, our group reached Krakowskie Przedmieście, the street, where, according to our city guide, it is easy to have ...

Avenues of giant plane trees shade us from the sun as we drive through the Provençal countryside, and we are frequently enticed to stop as we glimpse an ancient church, or the remains of a castle, ...

Gee we are really into islands on this trip! Located in the Bay of Naples Ischia has a population of 60,000 and is roughly 7 km by ten km in size. The centre of the island is mountainous, and there is ...

While we believe that the Nazis were ruthless fanatics led by a fascist dictator, it is a sad fact that there are despots and their acolytes around the world today who think Hitler was a hero and who ...

We finally managed a sleep-in this morning but we were still up and at breakfast by 8am. Afterwards we headed up to the Plazz de Armas again. It's only three blocks from our hotel, about 600 metres ...

Independence Day festivities are different in every country. We attended these festivities in 2023 and 2024 in Siedlce and saw that the program was clearly defined, successful and attractive for lots ...

The option to password protect blogs was made supporter-only a couple of years ago. You almost certainly password-protected your blog before then. Unfortunately there ...