My tip if you’re ever in Venice: spend the money to buy a vaporetto “boat bus” pass for however many days you’re going to be in town (e.g. 1, 3, 7. etc). Yes, you can get to St. Mark’s Square and … Continue reading
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
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.
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
I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that the World Championship of Snooker are currently underway in England.
So I like clocks, I like clouds, and I like to experiment with my photos on my computer. It’s rare, though, that I experiment by darkening just one part of the photo while lightning another part. However, the clouds and … Continue reading
In the 11th century there was a noble family named Burdet from Cullei in Normandy, France. Like many noble Norman families, they were adventurers — after all, they were descendants of the Norsemen, the Vikings.