Sorry guys, I am slowly catching up on my updating. Right now Im currently uploading the rest of the Berlin photos in my We enter Germany… entry, and right after I am going to upload the most that I can to my The 2nd Day entry from Amsterdam! Slowly but surely my friends. Today we Read More »
Flew into Rio and decided after 10 months of roughing it we could spoil ourselves for the last four days of our trip so checked into a very nice hotel on the beach in Ipanema. Spent a fair bit of time watching pay TV in our room and ordering room service partly due to the Read More »
Barcelona is such a lovely city, I am just surprised that you don’t hear more about it. It is an architecturally fascinating place greatly influenced by the famous (who knew!!) Antoni Gaudi. His most well known work is the as of yet unfinished church La Sagrada Familia. You literally have to see it to believe Read More »
London day 2. We started off at the Tower of London. So cool imaging how it was a working castle. The Beefeaters were funny. The crown jewels were incredible. One staff had a 538 carat diamond! I snuck some pictures. The King’s armor was so big. How did they fight? We then went to St Read More »
Okay, so I know I have been to some pretty amazing places already so it might be hard to impress me, but I thought at least Brussels would have something to see. I was wrong. Val and I arrived by train, and called our hotel for their free shuttle service. While I had seen this Read More »
Today was our first and only full day on the Isle of Skye. The Isle of Skye is part of the Inner Hebrides Islands in western Scotland. We started out on the A855 north out of Portree towards Old Man of Storr. Unfortunately, we couldn’t see this see this famous rock formation because it was Read More »
August 08 So this morning we got up and it was quite cloudy still from last night’s rain. We hopped in a cab to take us to the Hertz rental car place. The driver drove extremely fast, and at one point I swear he was gunning for some old lady crossing the street. When we Read More »
With our scooter loaded up again, we rode into the wide green yonder heading for the crater area of Ganung Batur. We knew it wasn’t going to be a long ride so scheduled in a stop at Tirta Empul (Holy Spring Temple), our second temple. It is one of the six most important temples in Read More »
We flew from Aswan to Cairo. One of the fascinating sights were the streets of Aswan and Cairo and in Cairo all the activity on the street of a major world city. (See The New York Times, March 1, 2007). The Cairo Museum was incredible, and there are so many things worth seeing it’s not Read More »
We woke up and had free breakfast in the hotel, and then hit the streets. We headed first for the Palau de la Musica Catalana, the music theater with beautiful mosaic tiles covering the facade. From there, we headed to L’Eixample, the district containing most of the “modernista” architecture. We saw a building that Antoni Read More »
