Pula, Istria Peninsula, Croatia

Pula, Istria Peninsula, Croatia

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...
Venice, Venito, Italy (2014)

Venice, Venito, Italy (2014)

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, Venito, Italy

Verona, Venito, Italy

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...
Naples, Campania, Italy

Naples, Campania, Italy

Before getting to Naples, the capital of the Italian south and my last stop in this my first jaunt through Italy, I had read that it was ‘different’, an utterly compelling city unlike anywhere else in the country. I had read that it was large, filthy,...
Pompeii, Campania, Italy

Pompeii, Campania, Italy

Pompeii, a 40-minute train ride around the Bay of Naples from Naples in southern Italy, was a wealthy Roman trading town that, on August 24th of the year 79 AD, was buried by volcanic ash and pumice from the eruption of the nearby volcano Mt. Vesuvius. The volcano had...
Vatican City

Vatican City

A sovereign city-state & the smallest country in the world, home to the largest church & the richest, most compelling museum complex on earth.

Rome, Italy

Rome, Italy

The cradle of modern civilisation as we know it & an open-air museum housing some of the major monuments of antiquity.

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Vatican City, officially Vatican City State, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It achieved sovereignty from Italy & the wider city of Rome in 1929 when the then Fascist Italian leader...
Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Colosseum, Rome, Italy

There’s history, & then there’s the Italian capital of Rome. Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, this is where modern civilisation as we all know it was founded. Yep, right here. Rome was first the centre of the Roman...

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