When we weren’t visiting all those churches, here’s what we saw during the rest of our time in Milan.

One fine Tuesday we rode the train north to visit the picturesque town of Como near the Swiss border. Only 30 minutes from Milan, the town sits at the southern end of the…

The cheapest way to see art and history in any Italian city is to visit churches and cemeteries.They rarely have admission costs and are open seven days a week. During…

We flew out of Athens on a warm Friday afternoon and into the northern Italian metropolis of Milan. Our first stop was the city’s cathedral, known as the Duomo. The…

No vacation in Greece is complete without a trip to their famous islands, but we weren’t really in a position to spend the time and money to travel out to…

Most of our outings in Athens centered on the Acropolis, but we also took time to visit the big archaeology museum and relax at the beach. And one night at…

We made it through the slow-moving and confusing security procedures at Tel Aviv airport in about an hour before the short flight over the eastern Mediterranean to our next destination…

We left Jerusalem by train on a warm Wednesday afternoon and made our way to the business center of Israel, the beach city of Tel Aviv. If Jerusalem is home…

Our Jerusalem apartment was about a mile west of the old city in a neighborhood called Rehavia. We were just across the street from the city’s botanical gardens and a…

During the second half of our time in Jerusalem we saw the Western Wall, the Tower of David and Israel Museums, and we took a dip in the Dead Sea.