(I don’t think this title means much, but Mom insists.) We are in Syracuse, Sicily, and are having a very good time. After a bit of a searching for a nice hotel, we found a really great one, and settled right in. But first, I need to talk about our visit to the once great […]
Archive | September, 2010
A Room With a View
Siena, September 16-18 We stopped for two nights in Siena on our way from Venice to Rome on the advice of Rick Steeve’s Italy guidebook; “its a must see”. He was right. It is a gorgeous old gothic city, with an old town center that hasn’t changed much since the 1500’s. The reason? It lost […]
Venice, september 15-16
Today we spent on a train going to Italy. When we got to Venice and settled in. It was kind of late around 7:00, so we went out to dinner. I got a cheese pizza, but I couldn’t get the full sensation of the taste because of my plugged nose. The next day we went […]
Saltzburg, September 11-14
At the end of the opening scene in the movie Sound of Music, Maria hears church bells that remind her she is late for mass. Those bells still ring all over Salzburg. We were delighted to find that our hotel was right across the street from a beautiful old church whose bells rang very hour…..and […]
Prague Walks
Prague We left Prague two days ago for Salzburg, Austria. It ended up as a longer stay than we initially planned for several reasons. One was simply that it is a great city; beautiful, with a lot of history and interesting architecture, and it is in a relatively compact area, lending itself well to walking. […]
Oslo — This is Fjord Country
Oslo– This is Fjord Country Our blogging has been delayed again. Though we were busy the last four days in Prague, the main reason for the delay was our poor internet connection. But now we are in Salzburg, and again have a good Internet connection. Before I get into Prague, I must backtrack to the […]
Land of the Vikings
Land of the Vikings Perhaps I enjoy Norway so much because it is the land of the Vikings, the name of my beloved football team. Or maybe it is because my paternal grandmother’s family is from Norway, and that part of the family showed their ancestral roots so much in speech and the way they […]
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