After spending a night in a Fair Grounds parking lot at the RV show, we traveled south and then west to beautiful Sanibel Island, FL. Douglas thought he had been here before, and after a call to his mum, it was confirmed. Their family came out here in late 60s or early 70s to spend a vacation on the…
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From a plane, sometimes you can easily determine if what you are looking down upon is a mountain or a hill. You are in a large jet with 150 other people and when you see something that looks like it could invade the sky, it is a mountain. When you are on a small plane…
View MoreA few weeks ago while we were driving to Bosnia, we noticed a big stone wall running from a mountain top to the sea and the water contained thousands of racks used to farm mussels and oysters. We made note and knew we had to do a day trip to see this region of Croatia…
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High above the old town of Dubrovnik, on Mount Syđ, are some sites worth seeing. To get to the top of Mount Syd, you can take cable car, drive, or hike up. The cable car can be crowded during peak times like cruise ships and sunset. The hiking trail was not too challenging for us…
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Douglas’ sister Kathryn, from San Francisco, flew into Dubrovnik for a week and knowing that she likes to stay active, we lined up kayaking, hiking, sailing, and shopping. Well, let’s back up just a bit. We took an early morning ferry from Hvar back to Split to pick up my sister who was arriving in…
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The island of Hvar has church bells and cicadas in the morning and nonstop partying at night. Get use to the thump-thump-thump of bass all night. Get lucky. We’re up all night till the sun, We’re up all night to get some. We’re up all night for good fun, We’re up all night to get…
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Split. Got it? Split is the second largest city in Croatia and its energy and traffic seems to funnel down into the harbor area on weekends. The harbor area is where the bus station is, where the train station is, where the ferry station is, where the cruise ships are, and finally, it is where the…
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Our time in Marrakech is running out, or maybe our ability to withstand the medina/kasbah pressure is failing, or maybe the extremely hot, dry, bleached weather has broken us, regardless, its time for us to squeeze a few last things in and get moving again. We chatted with the owner of https://www.facebook.com/Zwinzwincafemarrakech/, a lovely and…
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We decided to learn a little bit about how to navigate the Marrakesh Medina Souks (market) area including Djemaa el Fna square and grab a bit to eat at the same time. We latched onto a blog by an expat woman who with her Marrakesh husband, Youssef, have created a tourism company that aims to…
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The Feast of Saint Joseph, patron saint of workers, is celebrated on March 19th around the world. In a country as Roman Catholic as Malta, this is a big day. So big in fact that every town/village wants to have their own celebration that isn’t interfered with by their neighbor celebrating at the same time. This…
View MoreChurch bells at 5am and loud fireworks before 8am, you must be in Malta. The previous night you ate rabbit for dinner in a cellar in Valletta ,http://www.guzevalletta.com/, you must be in Malta. Later in the evening, a wine tasting on top of a stone fortress built by the Knights of Malta and fireworks lighting the…
View MoreThere is so much to do in the City of Light and just not enough time or energy to see and experience all of the interesting sites in just one week and a half. It would take months to explore all of the museums, shops, gardens, architecture and restaurants (there are 15k). There is truly…
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Reims used to be a quaint medieval village until the city and its cathedral were bombed on September 4, 1914 by Germans during WWI. The bombing went on for almost 3.5 years destroying 80% of the buildings and badly damaging the Cathedral. That’s Reims Cathedral as a backdrop for this US army recruiting poster from…
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You have never heard of Solto Collina. You most likely will never meet a person from there. If you were Italian and lived in Milan or maybe, Venice and you wanted to get away from the city during the Spring and Summer, you might go to Lake Iseo. One of the villages that you might…
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“Giant steps are what you take Walking on the moon I hope my legs don’t break Walking on the moon We could walk forever Walking on the moon We could live together Walking on, walking on the moon” Music group – The Police Christo and his wife, the late, Jeanne-Claude have been creating…
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