July 19,2025 Our train arrived in Venice just before sunset and when we stepped out of the train station we were on the Grand Canal!!! I was awestruck by the beauty of this magnificent city!! Our flat is just a long block off of the Grand Canal down a narrow alley complete with our own …
July 18, 2025 For our adventure today we went to Bratislava,Slovakia. Just an hour and a half by bus from Vienna is this charming 18th century town. Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, is set along the Danube River by the border with Austria and Hungary. ] It was the coronation site and legislative center and …
June 17, 2025 I am back in Vienna! Hard to believe it was only last September that I was here for the Opera. This time I am staying just a few blocks from the incredible Opera house. We had a 3 hour walking tour of the old town area of Vienna with an incredible guide. …
July 16, 2025 Our train to Venice wasn’t until 1:00 so we decided to go to The New York Cafe for a bite. The New York Cafe claims to be the most beautiful cafe in the world and I have to agree, even though I have not been to every cafe in the world. The …
June 15, 2025 It was a bit cooler today with some cloud cover so we set off to explore Margaret Island. Margaret Island is Budapest’s biggest green oasis. We took the tram then walked across the yellow Margaret Bridge and were into the lush green of the park. The whole island is a huge park, …
July 14, 2025 In 2016 I was told by the owner of the company I worked for that after 7 years of no vacation and working 100 hours a week it was time for me to take a vacation. I needed to figure out where to go so I built an ultimate wish list that …
June 12, 2025 Our day started with a tour of the city in an antique car. It was fun cruising the streets of Prague with the top down until it started raining, then not so much. But we put the top up and continued on!! We had adventured to all of the must see’s yesterday …
June 11, 2025 On June 10th we got to our Prague hotel, which is actually a decommissioned river boat about 6pm, dropped our bags and headed out to Old Town for dinner. We immediately spotted the Prague Castle high atop the citify. Can’t wait to start exploring. Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, is …
June 10, 2025 I had a bit of time before we headed to the train station to leave for Prague so I wanted to explore a bit more of Berlin in search of happy places after the intense day yesterday! I grabbed an Uber and headed to the East Side Gallery. The Gallery conserved graffiti …
July 9, 2025 I knew that today would be a emotionally hard day because we had book a tour to Sachsenhausen, a former Nazi concentration camp but I decided that I could not come to Berlin without exploring this part of history. It was emotionally harder because of what is happening in the US. Sachsenhousen …
