Posts/Entries
All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.
Istanbul, Turkey
Where East meets West & where Europe meets Asia. Straddling continents & oozing history, one of the major centre points of the world for thousands of years.
Turkish Airlines || Flying High
It was good to have a full-service flight experience today. I haven’t had one in a while. An airbridge to the plane, complimentary newspapers (all Turkish, on a flight from Dublin), smiling hostesses, a hot meal complete with menu & real cutlery you could probably...
Prague, Czech Republic (2014)
"... Prague... is overrun. It’s beset. And it’s only March, granted only for a few more hours. I can only imagine what it’s like here these days at the height of summer." Image || Karluv most (Charles Bridge), Prague, Czech Republic. March 31, 2014. Prague, Czech...
Vienna, Austria
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...
Bratislava, Slovakia
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 century...
Budapest, Hungary
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...
Monaco || Five To-dos
Five things to do in tiny city-state of Monaco, arguably the most glamorous, most star-studded & richest place on earth.
Zagreb, Croatia
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 Zagreb in...
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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...
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 three hours....
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...
Copenhagen, Denmark
The word on the street is that there’s more to Copenhagen, the now-cool capital of the Scandinavian country of Denmark, than that statue. Lots more.
Verona, Venito, 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 Shakespeare play Romeo...
Milano Centrale, Milan, Italy || Riding The Rails
Milano Centrale in the Italian fashion capital of Milan, one of Europe’s biggest train stations as captured on a day of riding the European rails.