Jazeera Airways. Nope, I’d never heard of them either, not before booking a flight with them a few weeks ago. Based out of Kuwait, seemingly they are the Middle East’s cheap, no-frills carrier (some, Jazeera themselves included, prefer the term low-fares), the...
I had to do a double, triple, quadruple take of the departures board here Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, Istanbul, Turkey. I couldn’t see a flight to Dubai anywhere. My flight to Dubai. I got that sinking feeling. I was worried but only long enough to...
I was aiming to be on the 8 a.m. bus out of Vienna, Austria, to Prague but at 6.a.m this morning when my alarm went off I opted for the 1 p.m. bus instead, convincing myself as I turned over that I could do with the lie-in. The day I spent wayfaring around the streets...
One of Europe’s newest capitals yet an ancient and important city to the Austro-Hungarian empire, Slovakia’s Bratislava is a curious place. A city of blended cultures & one offering up a strange mix of old & new, it’s a city where you can peer at 20th...
It felt like a long day of train travel today. It was a pleasant rail experience but for some reason the almost 7 hour trip from Zagreb, Croatia to Budapest seemed to take twice as long. ______________________________________________________ Date || March 25, 2014...
Bloody rain. I’m fairly tolerant of the stuff but twice in as many days now it has, & if you’ll pardon the oh-so obvious pun, put a dampener on me gallivanting around gorgeous Central European capital cities. Yesterday Ljubljana, Slovenia & today...
What a difference a day makes. I’m sure glad I saw what I saw of Pula on the Croatian Istria Peninsula yesterday when bathed in sunshine because it was a miserable day today in this little corner of Europe. ______________________________________________________ Date...
I’ve just arrived in Pula on Croatia’s Istra Peninsula. It has been an interesting day. I left Venice, Italy, at 11 a.m. & spent 2 hours on a train getting to Trieste, Italy, where I waited for a bus for another hour before sitting on it for the next...
I vividly remember last year walking around the mock-up of Venice that is the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada & thinking how it’d be cool to get back to the real thing, recalling with fondness my first & only visit to Venice back in 2007. That was...
Verona, Italy Home To Fictitious Romeo & Juliet & A Very Real Stunning Array Of UNESCO-Listed Churches Church of Saint Anastasia, Verona, Italy. March 17, 2014 ; Verona on the River Adige in Venito, northern Italy, is famous as the location for the...
