So the idea for my post today was to show what we saw just wandering around Venice on foot, without using our vaporetto (“boat bus”) pass. It’s not really an ordered set of things, as we just meandered here and … Continue reading
We managed to get in a very quick visit to Bolzano on our trip to Italy a couple of weeks ago. Our schedule was complicated by the fact the holiday dates in Germany, Bolzano, and the rest of Italy were … Continue reading
It’s time today to talk about Fußball!
Chris and I love to hang out in Piazza Bra in Verona, sitting on a bench, and gazing at L’Arena, the nearly 2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre that is still in use today.
Suddenly, there it was: a vibrant rainbow that appeared above the rooftops across the street from our apartment, following a brief but forceful rain shower last Thursday.
A few odds and ends to close out this week.
A punting boat of the type that has featured in many of my photos is properly called Stocherkahn here in Tübingen. Once a year there’s a race with these boats — a Stocherkahnrennen — around the island in the middle … Continue reading
So it was one of those days where everything took longer than I thought.
I first became aware of this when Chris pointed out a photo and headline in a local Venetian newspaper on Saturday.
We’re back in Tübingen after a week-long trip to Italy. We visited 4 Italian cities in 9 days, which is not quite the 10 countries in 21 days I did on one of those marathon bus trips many, many years … Continue reading