Krakow, Poland’s Medieval Capital
Those UNESCO people really know what they’re talking about. After observing that so many of the places we have been visiting—and loving—lately (Split, Dubrovnik, Kotor) [Read More…]
Destinations
A Palacial Library in Budapest
We love libraries. We love everything about them: the smell of the books, the storehouse of knowledge, the quietness, the understated majesty and mystique of [Read More…]
Budapest’s Cat Café
If the number of tears-of-laughter inducing videos of cats doing crazy things on YouTube and Facebook are any indication, humans love their feline friends. We’re [Read More…]
Széchenyi Thermal Baths in Budapest
There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being immersed in hot water with your head sticking up into frigidly cold air. We discovered this a few years [Read More…]
Budapest. Oh, My.
I’ve wound up in a “live blogging” mode where I wake up and realize a new blog is due out and I have to whip [Read More…]
The Schonbrunn Palace, With a Dash of Mozart and Strauss
Vienna is practically packed with two things: sausages and palaces. The famed Vienna sausages are an expensive delicacy here, so enjoy their mass-produced fatty-jellied goodness [Read More…]
Vienna, Austria
Had you asked us to describe what we expected of Vienna before we visited, we probably would have said: culture and elegance. Now that we [Read More…]
Skiing In Slovenia’s Alps, and European Skiing For Americans
One of the first things I learned about Slovenia is that they have skiing. A Slovenian economic development rep once told me that the Alps [Read More…]
The Top 7 Sites of Ljubljana, Slovenia, aka “Little Paris”
“Ljubljana is just like Paris, except smaller. And without all the Parisians.” So described Chuck to Lori of the capital of Slovenia. It was a [Read More…]
Kotor, Montenegro
On our third and final day of car hire (that’s renting a car for our fellow Americans) in Tivat, Montenegro for the New Year holiday [Read More…]