Awesome Abel Tasman
It’s evening of Day 6 and two sturdy black carry-on style duffle bags are waiting for us in our room when we […]
Top Ten Things to do in Venice
Here in no particular order, are my suggestions for the top ten things to do in Venice. 1. Buy A Vaporetto Pass […]
Venice is For Romantics
Europe overflows with towns and cities and landscapes that evoke romance. Consider how many poets and composers and writers and painters drew their […]
Whirlwind Barcelona
My favorite Europe guidebook writer, Rick Steves, states in his Spain guidebook that trying to see Barcelona in a day is insane. Rick […]
Girona Sightseeing
Girona is the main town about a fifteen-minute drive from the Castel d’Escales and well worth a full day visit. The town is […]
Castel d’Escales in Catalonia
I begin my six-week sojourn in Europe with a vacation from a vacation—a one-week stay at the evocative Castel d’Escales in Catalonia, […]
Musical Vienna
“A Woman of Note” tells the story of a woman musician just after one of the most fruitful periods in Vienna’s musical […]
Tuscany Wine Tour – An Unforgettable Day Out
Why do people love to visit Tuscany so much? Just mention the word “Tuscany” in certain circles and you are greeted with […]
Chilling in Hobbiton, the Coromandel, and Auckland
Our three-week odyssey is winding down. After leaving Rotorua, we have just six nights left before we must fly home to Vancouver. […]
Steamy New Zealand
We are in the simmering center of the North Island. We spend two nights cavorting among the volcanoes in Tongariro National Park and […]
Windy Wellington
After arriving back from our Abel Tasman tour, I throw a few loads of laundry into the machines at the Grand Mercure […]
Winding West Coast New Zealand
Blog 2 of our New Zealand Adventure starts on Day 4 still in Queenstown, then moves up to Wanaka and out to […]
South Island Sensational
After a pleasant fourteen-hour flight that involves a surprising amount of sleep in addition to three feature-length movies, we land in Auckland, […]
