Like a bag of bones – Sedlec Ossuary, Czech R.
How do you avoid rubbing shoulders with thousands of other tourists and high school students-on-a-trip- abroad? I don’t suggest shooting yourself, but take an hour long trip to Kutna Hora. […]
Category Archives: Europe
Chopin’s den, Poland
An hour away from Warsaw where everything about Chopin takes up a whole day’s worth of sightseeing, is his birthplace, Zelazowa Wola. Although Chopin’s family moved him out to Warsaw […]
C’est Paris
You visit Paris once. Once to rush around the major landmarks like the “unconventional” tourist, and then for fashionably irresistible reasons. Although I’d been once before, I was never really […]
Rubble up some mo’ – Herculaneum
Unlike Pompeii, Herculaneum was a smaller and wealthier seaside town. Today, it lies on the shores of smaller cities, Ercolano and Portici, that brings to life the ancient site accidentally […]
Rubble up in Pompeii, Italy
Pack up your imagination, compass and a book about Pompeii like “The Complete Pompeii” and go down in history to a labyrinth of streets, neighborhoods and what not. Just before […]
What’s your pizza?
Neopolitan! We rode on the incredibly slow Intercity train that rattled like a dying battery from Rome Termini to Napoli Centrale rather than whooshing by in an hour on the […]
