Europe

Hail fellows! It all happened a long time ago, in a place far, far away… (for those readers suffering from fantasy aversion disorder, that is to say, it happened this morning in Central Europe) …when the mighty King was joined…

Hello, and thank you for dropping by.  Today’s adventures took us to the medieval city of Ravenna (pronounced ruh · veh · nuh), the Italian city of mosaics.  Back in the 200-300 AD era, Ravenna was the third most powerful city…

Hello all. Welcome to our travel blog. Today’s adventure has raven us to the famed city of Bologna (pronounced buh·lo·nyuh) the home of 400,000 very well fed residents. I say that because, Bologna is the renown for their cuisine. Also, their churches,…

Dear Diary — Buongiorno! Today we returned to one of our favorite countries, Italy, where we talked a lot with the local residents, and boy are my hands tired. (Sorry, that was a joke about Italians talking with their hands.…

Hello, thanks for dropping by.  Today we are in our only stopover in Greece. Since we were rerouted, our other stopovers in Greece were replaced with Africa, so we wanted to make the most of the day.  The two most…

Ironically, the city of Gibraltar is a very tiny “over seas territory” of Great Britain. Measuring only 2.5 square miles, the entire territory is literally less than half of the size of Heathrow Airport. While throughout history, Morocco and Spain have vied…