

Sicily - Taormini
On Sunday, April 29th we took the ferry to Messina, Sicily from the toe of the "boot". They changed the location of boarding and where...


Tivoli - Villa Adriana
The second part of our visit to Tivoli was Hadrian's Villa built and used by the Roman Emperor as a retreat from the City of Rome and all...


Tivoli - Villa d'Este
Friday night we checked into the O.C. Hotel Villa Adriana in Tivoli, a town about 30 kilometers to the east of Rome. Historically,...


Civita di Bagnoregio
We came across a gem yesterday about an hour south of Florence. We were driving through various hill top towns which were all gorgeous. ...


Hilltop towns of Tuscany
We picked Hotel Marzia for our three days in Tuscany. Our son John (Jacob) and I had stayed there during our visit in 2014. "Stayed...


April 2018
Our Spring trip takes Heather and I once again to Italy along with a few other places. We landed in Munich Germany and after securing...


Bulgarian National Flower, the Rose
I was so pleased to learn that the National flower of Bulgaria is the Rose. They have them everywhere. They had them planted down the...


Bulgaria and Romania
During last year's trip to Europe we boarded an Air Austria flight in Vienna and flew to Sofia Bulgaria. Over the next week we drove...