We love Montenegro! It’s almost the end of our travels and we are road weary, but when you have a rental car, its a great excuse to explore a different country. Montenegro is less than an hour from Dubrovnik and is a bit more laid back and not as touristy. Cruise ships have started to…
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Barcelona It was the first time that we met Barcelona How can I forget The moment that you stepped into the room You took my breath away -Freddie Mercury This is not our first time in Barcelona (pics from our 2003 trip are here https://www.travelerblues.com/uncategorized/spain-trip-2003/ but we’ve got a bit of a layover in Barcelona in…
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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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Austin peeps should not be complaining about all of the new toll roads. France has a toll road every 10 miles. We paid $ 60 to drive through the highest mountain in Europe via the Mont Blanc Tunnel which goes thru the Alps connecting France to Italy. [Ed. Douglas’s ramblings, ‘time is the only real…
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Lavender is the universal symbol of Provence and our pilgrimage tour continues in search of blooming lavender. We decided to do a sneak peak of the fields in early June and were disappointed. The lavender was NOT blooming yet! The Abbaye de Senanque is said to be the # 1 photo op on the route…
View MoreI arrived at the airport, went through immigration, and was on my way in the hotel van by 2pm. The hotel was the Tara Angkor that is out of downtown, but on the way to all of the temples. Lisa did an outstanding job choosing this place and arranging to have pick-up. It sure makes…
View MoreAs the Beatles song goes, “grabbed my, my hat, made the bus in seconds flat…” I like the HK airport, besides having a couple of Popeye’s Chicken restaurants and three or so tiffany’s, its easy to get around. To get to Siem Reap, I ended u p going through Bangkok with the first leg being…
View MoreThere are a lot of problems with blogging. A lot of folks don’t really know how much work it takes. Whilst in Australia and visiting new Zealand, I didn’t blog, but instead just posted a subset of photos on facebook and wrote captions. It seemed like a fair number of my friends liked this. But…
View MoreSo here I am sitting in the British Airways ‘special’ lounge in the SFO airport. “How did I get here?” Well, I was able to use miles to boost myself a free business class to Hong Kong and an economy back (due to availability ). Having abused my citi AA mileage credit card for the…
View MoreBula! My daughter Ashleigh was visiting this week so we decided on a whim to spend a few days in Fiji- which is only a 3.5 hour flight from Sydney, similar to travelling to the Caribbean from the southern states. Since this is Ashleigh’s final semester at A&M and I’m celebrating my b-day for a…
View MoreMrs Macquaries Chair is a famous attraction on Sydney Harbor. The story is that the wife of the first Governor was so homesick for England that she would sit on the edge of a peninsula and watch the ships. Her husband then had men carve a chair for her out of the sandstone there. Alas,…
View MoreLisa’s Sister had arrived on Friday morning from the states and Lisa and I had been keeping her busy for the next two days. She had had one request before heading over in that she wanted to do a walk about. Lisa eventually explained to her before her arrival that a walk about was a…
View MoreLisa’s sister, Julie, came over to Sydney from the bay area for a long weekend and got the crash tour of Sydney. For Mother’s Day, Lisa, Julie and I went to an Italian Restaurant on Bondi Beach, North Bondi Italian Food. It seemed to be a very happening place where people go to see and…
View MoreI’m not very hip and don’t really understand things like Van Dutch or Diesel clothe lines made up of denim and cotton. Nor do I understand why someone would want to pay $200 on a cotton t-shirt that has a print on it of a tattoo on it. But I do now know, after getting…
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