Category Trips
Europe 2022 – Munich, Part Two
June 25 – 27 After finishing up our welcome drinks at the Premier, we made our way up the street to Karlsplatz, which is the gateway on Neuhauser Strasse to Munich’s pedestrian only historic center and its highpoint, the Marienplatz. Our destination was a familiar one, unique in that of all of the towns we […]
Europe 2022 – Munich, Part One
June 25 – 27 Given that our train trip to Munich this day would take less than two hours, we opted for a late morning departure that would get us into town around 2:30, just before check-in at Premier Inn Munich City Zentrum Hotel, our hotel for the duration. We left the Pensione with an […]
Europe 2022 – Innsbruck, Part Two
June 23 – 24 We set out the next day to see as much as we could within walking distance of the pensione, easy to do given our central location. First up though was to head a block towards the train station to stop in at the MPREIS on the corner. An Austrian food retail […]
Europe 2022 – Innsbruck, Part One
June 23 – 24 Knowing we had a long day on the train ahead of us with multiple stops, we left the apartment early enough to grab a bite to eat at Café New York near the train station. Being familiar with the town now, we opted to walk to the café instead of taking […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Five
June 20 – 22 As we resume our time in Pisa, we left the Baptistry and walked across the property to the two long buildings known as the Camposanto Monumentale or Monumental Cemetery. This walled cemetery is said to have been built around a shipload of sacred soil from Calvary, brought back to Pisa from […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Four
June 20 – 22 Finished, we entered the plaza and had our first glimpse of what the afternoon was to bring, dispelling my uninformed idea of the place, thinking it was just going to be the tower, standing alone, with little else to see around it. Boy was I wrong. The 22-acre complex is known […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Three
June 20 – 22 After relaxing at the apartment for a while, we walked the couple of blocks it took us to arrive at Trattoria Da Giulio Surl, where we had made our reservations the day before. The restaurant abuts the outer wall of Lucca and most of the seating is outside. We arrived just […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Two
June 20 – 22 After breakfast the next day we set out to discover all we could about this charming walled Tuscan city of 89,000, with a provincial population of 384,000. Lucca is known as one of the Italian’s “Città d’arte” (Arts town), thanks to its intact Renaissance-era city walls and its very well-preserved historic […]
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part One
June 20 – 22 Today would be a long and somewhat complicated day of travel, with three stops, Nice to Ventimiglia, then to Genoa, then to La Spezia Centrale, connecting to Viareggio and finally landing in Lucca. We chose this route primarily because it didn’t require any seat reservations and wasn’t any shorter a trip […]
Europe 2022 – Nice – Re-Posted
June 18 – 19 Happy New Year to all. I inadvertently posted this last Monday, a full week ahead of schedule so am pushing it today per my usual time table, that is one post a week until we do so much traveling that I’ll need to start posting more than once per week. So […]
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