VIENNA I was looking forward to my first visit to Vienna and spending time with my friend Pearl Nitsche who had very graciously offered us a room in her huge apartment for a week of exploring her city. But, sometimes unforeseen things happen. Due to much- needed surgery, which Pearl had hoped would have been …
ÄŒESKŸ KRUMLOV Romantic. Quaint. Picturesque. Mountains. A winding river. And of course, a Castle! Everyone had told us not to miss ÄŒeskÿ Krumlov while we were in the neighborhood. So, this time we booked a FLIX bus to take us from Prague to this southern Czech Republic town, and it didn't show up! We waited …
KRAKOW From Budapest to Krakow we took a 7-hour train ride. We had seats across from 2 young men, one Australian and one from Finlandia, who both loved to talk! The train had a club/dining car and was perfectly comfortable - until it stopped all of 20 km from Budapest and sat on the tracks …
BUDAPEST We were sad to leave beautiful Lake Bled, but also excited to keep moving on! Once more we boarded a beautiful, big, extremely clean and comfy European tour bus for our 7-hour trip to another stop on our tour of Eastern Europe - this time Hungary. Our ride to Budapest Joyce will now step …
LAKE BLED Once upon a time in a land far, far away there lived a beautiful princess in a castle perched on a mountain top overlooking a crystal-clear, turquoise blue lake. The Princess, against her father's wishes, fell in love with a handsome boy from the village down below. They would sneak away and laugh …
A LITTLE HISTORY - THANKS TO WIKIPEDIA. I was going to copy and paste a bit of the history of this fascinating country which was formerly a part of Communist Yugoslavia, but it's a long and interesting history, and you really need to read it for yourself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia DUBROVNIK We bused from Naples to …
SORRENTO & THE AMALFI COAST A first - from Rome to Naples we took the fast train which took just one hour! It was great, I just couldn't take pictures out the window as everything was whooshing by too fast! We changed at the Naples station to the 'subway' or local train to Sorrento. First, …
ROMA After our gracious Airbnb host, Paolo, came to the flat, and grabbed our suitcases, we once again boarded a very nice bus for the short trip from Siena to Rome. Rome - what can I say? Over-crowded with tourists? That probably is the understatement of this blog! Just getting a taxi from the bus …
SIENA Under the Tuscan Sun! We bused from Florence to the lovely Tuscan town of Siena and fell in love! We were so happy to be out of a big city and in an area of Italy with green, rolling hills, castles and ancient cities perched on hilltops with acres of vineyards to fill the …
My Home on the Roam 