Ok, so I’m still way behind. But this weekend is for catching up. So here is the story of our November trip, Thailand. We spent 10 days in the land…

Sometimes we pick a destination because we’ve always dreamed of visiting there, and sometimes we just check the specials and see what’s most affordable. For the August bank holiday we…

Sorry things haven’t been appearing here in the timely manner you’ve come to expect. I do have a backlog, so don’t think that we’ve gotten soft. Back in July we…

Recently in the news because it was submerged for almost a week, the capital city of the Czech Republic was warm and dry when we visited in late June. A…

For those of you who spent time around Gammage Auditorium or a certain seedy apartment near downtown Tempe a decade ago, you probably remember Jeff Nored. Jeff worked backstage at…

After we returned from Italy we spent a weekend with our friends Yvonne and Brian at their flat in the west London borough of Richmond. We ate dinner at their…

Our Italian tour concluded with three days in Venice, the gateway to the Orient. The city was capital of an independent state until 1866, when it joined with the Kingdom…

We spent one morning in Florence at the Palazzo Pitti, a former residence for the ruling Medici family that is now a museum and public garden. The museum is home…

After the days in wonderful Rome we took a train north to Florence, the largest city in Tuscany and the heart of the Renaissance. Tuscan food is now probably our…

Italy was full of so many wonderful things, but we can’t really share the food or the hospitality on this site, so we stick with the sights. Rome happens to…