Soggy shoes are replaced before I travel up Mount Etna and brave more rain in the coastal town of Taormina
I woke up in Syracuse on Wednesday to bright sunshine and hoped to visit the archeological park. But my running shoes (which I had...
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Oh, the places I will go …
I am a writer who loves to travel. As a professional journalist for 40 years, I went to a lot of bad places but not a lot of nice ones. Now that I have the time and the means to see the parts of the Earth I have not seen, I am going to go as far afield as I can, as often as I can.
I have been single since my husband died in 2014. And I am not young - I qualify for a lot of senior’s discounts. But that just means now is the time I must do this.
Sometimes I will travel alone, and sometimes I will travel with friends. And I write this blog not to offer advice or tips, but merely as a record of my journeys - one that I can enjoy in later years when my travelling is curtailed by age. Hopefully others will enjoy coming along for the ride.
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I am in Syracuse, after a day in Agrigento and another in Sicilian medieval towns. Getting to know the Greek side of this island.
Some days things don’t go right. This is one of them. I had planned, long before I came to Sicily, to spend today in the Archeological...
My Sicilian adventure begins - markets and cathedrals and time spent with friends
What is it about Italy that draws me back here again and again? In this case, it was a message from Josie - one of the sisters from...
So here I am in Puerto Rico
Dev wanted a beach vacation ... and I was aching to travel ... so she picked Puerto Rico and I signed on as her wing person. We arrived...
Lagos brings an end to my trip … with a bit of snorkelling, some history… and some nosh
Lagos is a city of white stucco in Portugal's southern Algarve region where Europeans from colder climes congregate for beach holidays....
We watch a massive graduation fete in Coimbra and a visit a temple of bones in Evora
The final week of this very long bit of travel will be spent in Lagos in the Algarve which is on Portugal's southern Atlantic Coast. But...
We spend four days in Porto - seeing cathedrals but mostly enjoying the wine
Cyn and I booked a lovely AirBNB on the first floor of a historic building on a busy but fabulous pedestrian walkway in Porto called Rua...
Cyn arrives in Lisbon and the next three days are a feast of good wine and great food
Cyn arrived at the Lisbon AirBNB early on Sunday afternoon, a little travel weary but eager for her vacation to begin. The sadist in me...
We tour Monasteries in Lisbon and take a great walking tour over the ancient streets of the Alfama
Devon and I arranged for a car to take us (and all my bags) from Cascais to Lisbon early in the morning a week after I got off the ship....
We spend four days at Cascais on the coast near Lisbon - and visit Sintra
It was Devon who suggested that we spend four days in Cascais, a pastel-coloured fishing and tourist town on the coast near Lisbon. She...
I visit Marseilles, Aix and Cassis … with a pretty great travelling companion
I feel like I could live in Marseilles. I know ... I say that about many of the places in Europe I have visited. But the French port city...
My final analysis of the world cruise - a serious commitment that was totally worth it
Going around the world entails a serious commitment of both finances and time. I made those commitments because I had been thinking about...
I enjoy towns on the Italian coast, and then my around-the-world adventure comes to an end
I have spent a total of four weeks of my life in Italy - one of them on a school trip at the tender age of 15. But somehow, after so many...
I walked through the palace of the Minoan kings in Knossos on Crete
The folks who create fireworks shows save the grand finale for the final moments. And this trip has been a little like that. Yes there...
Petra takes my breath away, and then we transit the Suez Canal
I don't know when I first learned about Petra, or saw pictures of the magnificent carved facade of the ancient trading town. I was...
I take a jeep ride into Oman’s rocky desert hills, then see a bit of life in an oil emirate
Even during Ramadan, when restaurants are forbidden to open and the hours of other points of interest are curtailed, Oman is a very cool...
Dubai’s best feature is its architecture… so if cool buildings are your thing …
Dubai is one of the cities on this circumnavular voyage that I have visited several times previously - on the way in and out of...
Civility on a four-month cruise … it hasn’t been a geriatric Lord of the Flies but …😳
I read with interest the news articles about Life at Sea Cruises launching a three-year around-the-world tour. The adventurer in me said...
Colombo temples, a chaotic market, and a cold beer help me forget the close call in Penang
I needed to have a good day after the near debacle of Penang - and Sri Lanka brought one. it ended happily with Jane and beer at an old...
Penang was going great … until it really wasn’t
I have not spent a lot of days of this trip entirely on my own. So when I had the opportunity to go solo in Penang, another great...
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