I have known this phrase since I was young but I couldn’t remember anymore how I learned about it. I know it followed the phrase, “the glory that was Greece”. It must be when I had the English American Literature course in college that I came across the poem of Edgar Allan Poe. Somehow it […]
2010-2019: A Decade of Travel
Looking back on our travel memories we must say that for ten years we’ve spent almost each year of our life travelling. It was a wonderful decade for us because despite our busy lives we managed to go on trips whenever we wanted. It wasn’t like we travelled around the world though. But visiting other […]
Brixen, South Tyrol – A Place Worth Discovering
One of the most exciting things you can do when you go on a road trip is looking for a place to stay overnight based on spur of the moment decisions. We have done it ever since we started our road trips and it has led us to discover some places by chance. One of the […]
Verona: Finding Our Way To Juliet’s House
To see the place where Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet played for the first time was the reason why my husband took me to Verona. He had been to Verona in his younger years and finding Juliet’s House or Casa di Giulietta again was not an easy task. We walked from Piazza Bra not knowing if […]
Verona: Hanging Around Piazza Bra With A View
Verona is the first city of Italy which my husband wanted to show me on our first ever Europe road trip many years ago. We were already driving to the city when torrential rain poured down so hubby drove back to the freeway and stopped at a rest stop. Thinking it would be rainy days in Verona we […]
A Tour Through Leonardo da Vinci’s Hometown
It was my husband’s idea to drive to Vinci during our summer road trip. He had read about the Museo Leonardiano in Vinci and he’d hoped to see some original sketches of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings. Vinci is a small town in the region of Tuscany, Italy so a one-day visit was enough. It was quite an upland […]
