In mid August I wrapped up my time in Lithuania by spending a few days in its captial, Vilnius. This small town (half a million people) is the largest in…
Trakai Island Castle is an island castle located in Lithuania on an island in Lake GalvÄ—. The construction of the stone castle was begun in the 14th century by KÄ™stutis,…
The area of KernavÄ— has been inhabited for the last 10,000 years, with the number of settlements significantly increasing in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras. The town was first mentioned…
In order to see a couple of important pilgrimage sites in northern Lithuania, I rented a car with a Romanian guy I met in Klaipeda. The first place we visited…
Palanga is a small beach town only 30 minutes north of Klaipeda with buses back and forth every half an hour, which makes it very easy to get to. The…
I don’t ever stay in hostels since I prefer to spend a little bit more money and have my own room, but when I arrived in Klaipeda on August 7th…
The Curonian Spit is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea coast. Its southern portion lies within Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia…
I am writing about my time in Nida, Lithuania which I visited for several days at the beginning of August. After making it through the Russian-Lithuanian border and exploring Nida,…
Yesterday I wrote about the adventure I had in crossing the Russian-Lithuanian boarder on the Curonian Spit, which is 100 km long and only 1/2 – 4 km wide at…
I just finished writing about my time in St Martin and all the fun things there are to do there and I am about to start writing about the different…
Eric and I sat down a while back and chatted about the 10 day long driving tour we took around Iceland. We drove the Ring Road counter clockwise and then…
In the last blog I described a secret way to go from the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museum to St Peter’s Basilica without having to stand in line. Today I…
Haha. I thought a photo of a statue of Zeus would be a great way to end our blogs about Rome. I know I will be listening to him and…
Knowing that Melek and I would be visiting Rome, I brought a copy of the movie Angels & Demons, starring Tom Hanks, with me. This is a sequel to the…
This is for good reason…..they are everywhere. It seems everytime you turn a corner there is another fountain. Many of these are 300 or more years ago and served a…
Today’s photo of the day is one that I forgot I took and turned out way better than I expected. It is of the Castel St Angelo, which started as…
On Tuesday I started tell you about our day exploring Rome and today I want to continue that story. Just so you know the roads in Rome are narrow and…
That is because it has been in constant use since it was build 2000 years ago. Yesterday I started tell you about the day we spent exploring Rome and I…
Simply visit any of the dozen upon dozen churches in Old Rome. These masterpieces of architecture are 300-700 years old and inside each one you will find paintings and sculpture…
Tomorrow I will begin telling you about our day walking through old Rome seeing all the fountains, plazas, and churches. One of the places we saw was the Church of St…
In the last several blogs I told you all about our time in Vatican City and now it is time to explore Rome itself. We chose to see the Ancient…
We started off exploring the Palatine Hill and came up to the Roman Forum. We were at the top of the cliff when we saw it for the first time…
and as you can see from today’s photo of the day it is quite the wonder! On Sunday I will be writing about our day in this area of Rome….
Today’s photo of the day is from the interior of St Peter’s Basilica dome. If you climb tothe top of the dome you will find this amazing mosaic rimming the…
When I finished the last blog, I explained how we got a guided tour of the Necropolis of Vatican City and our guide took us through the Vatican Museum. This…
The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City is today’s photo of the day and I will write a great deal about it tomorrow along with the rest of the Vatican Museum….
Visiting the Necropolis of the Via Triumphalis was the highlight of our time in the smallest country in the world. This was a cemetery discovered in 1956 when a parking…
Today’s photo of the day is of the Vatican City Spiral Stairs that were designed in the 1920 and are atthe entrance to the Vatican Museum. There are actually two stairs…
Since our hotel was a five minute walk from Vatican City, it seemed like we came through here every night. I loved how it was lit up so I spent…
If you read the last blog you will know that Melek and I arrived in Rome after our time in Barcelona and the first thing we did was get orientated…