Happy Easter! Took a morning hike out in the Allgau in nearby Bavaria about 20 km from Bregenz and came across the lovely Baroque Maria-Thann Church in a small village of Thann. Normally tiny towns like this don’t have such…
Happy Easter! Took a morning hike out in the Allgau in nearby Bavaria about 20 km from Bregenz and came across the lovely Baroque Maria-Thann Church in a small village of Thann. Normally tiny towns like this don’t have such…
As the days on the Bodensee become warmer and the trees and flowers burst with vibrant color I always start to get a bit “antsy.” So when this took hold this past week I hopped on the train to Switzerland…
You gotta love the Spaniards. To be able to order a Filet de Lenguado with sautéed vegetables and a generous portion of mussels served in a fragrant broth at 11:30 at night was fantastic. Especially after our late flight to…
Our first day and a city tour of beautiful Tbilisi. We drive to the Kakheti region and learn how to bake bread and taste some wonderful Georgian wines. We drive to the semi-desert at the Azerbaijani border and visit an…
The marble walkways gleamed in the near empty streets of the old Arabic city of Marsala, Sicily. The main square Piazza della Repubblica was quiet and the silhouette of the Baroque facade of the Church of Purgatory was bathed in…
The arid landscape as viewed from the train from Madrid to Toledo, Spain is flat and uninteresting. But as one approaches the UNESCO Heritage City the brown turns to green as the Tagus River nourishes the dry valley into a…
The aged surface of the skull was intricately painted with tendrils of ivy and flowers adorning the precious piece. Details from its past life were carefully scribed in old German with a Maltese Cross placed just above the vacant eyes…
Back to home
The Aare river glimmered emerald green in the afternoon sun as it wound around the medieval capital city of Bern Switzerland. Quiet laughter and animated conversation flowed from a group of young people as they floated down the swift moving…
After our short jaunt to Venice our next stop on our whirlwind tour of the Veneto region was the city “where the world’s most excellent tragedy was performed” at the World Heritage site of Teatro Olimpico (Olympic Theatre) in Vicenza…