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 […]
Top Memories in Europe
Our five-week trip to Europe has been a whirl of professional development and business activities sprinkled liberally with many, many great travel experiences. Sometimes the line between the two sets of activities blurs and overlaps–and that’s what keeps us coming back as often as we can. I’m following up on my one-week Rome blog with a list of our all-time favorite moments of our Europe 2017 sojourn. The moments are in no particular order–a description of a concert in Paris might rub […]
Bella Roma
We are spending nine nights in Rome in April of 2017 during an exhibition of Gregg Simpson’s paintings at the Arte Borgo gallery just around the corner from our lovely apartment a few hundred meters from St. Peter’s Cathedral. Click the link to view a video of the exhibition. This trip marks the sixth time that both Gregg and I have been to Rome (although not all trips together!). Gregg’s first trip was in 1958 when he was eleven and my first […]
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, […]
