A no-no for Gozo, Malta
As much as I would like to deny it, we fell for the Gozo tourist trap. Bright Gozo day trip flyers were plastered all over San Gilan (St Julian’s), the […]
Tag Archives: Day trip
Panama Canal – Up close
On our way to Cuba from Peru, we extended our stopover at Panama City to 3 days and 2 nights. Unless you intend to visit other places on the Isthmus […]
A hundred fires – Cienfuegos, Cuba
Ever heard of Benny Moré? No? Yes? By now, you would have googled him. So, how about we go on a photo tour around the Cuban Frank Sinatra’s birth place, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
