Thoughts from working and travelling outside the USA
Trieste is a great town – more Austrian than Italian with architecture and the city planning by the Hapburgs – and was one of the last regions incorporated into modern Italy in the 1950s. We had about 2 days in Trieste and we were able to visit he main sites of Miramare Castle and San... Continue Reading →
About a year ago, we planned a cruise through the eastern Mediterranean to revisit places we hadn’t seen in decades plus Israel and Petra. Our original Holland America itinerary was changed when the Israel stop was cancelled, so, we were speaking with friends who had been looking at a similar cruise and were frequent “sailors”... Continue Reading →
Back to work at a conference in Milan and I had seen the tourist sites on prior trips. Mostly work, but as they say, when in Rome do as the Romans. But this was Milan so I went to an English pub to see England play (before Brexit II – and to be fair Wales... Continue Reading →
First family vacation overseas in seven years, I'd been to Italy a couple of times for work but generally we had been very US centric in our travels. We flew into Milan and immediately drove to Florence. When renting a car I got distracted in getting a sports car versus room - so we had... Continue Reading →
This was the 1st leg of my first frequent flyer “score'”. I had some miles on American and somehow I got a buy-one-get-one-free promotion on TWA. I don’t remember the specifics but we flew from Washington – Rome on American, took a ferry to Greece, and then flew a local airline from Athens to Cairo... Continue Reading →
After taking the overnight train from Paris to Zurich where we rented a car to drive to tour Northern Italy with stops in Genoa, Portofino, Pisa, Bologna, Florence, Venice and ultimately and back to Zurich where we flew home. We drove right by Cinque Terre (hills towns) as we took the Autostrada and not the... Continue Reading →