Where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
Florence! The home of Renaissance art and architecture, and the capital of Tuscany. With famous gourmet cuisine, this medieval city on the banks of Arno River captivated our hearts with its charming narrow cobbled streets, fresco-decorated churches and basilicas, marble statues and vibrant night life. Continue reading “Florence & Pisa, Italy 2016”
After overcrowded Venice it was refreshing to spent a week in charming Padua. It was much cheaper there, and we could do day trips to other cities nearby. Continue reading “Padua, Verona & Ferrara, Italy 2016”
April 23. Still 2020?
I don’t know about you, but for me time seems to have stopped. A day feels like a year. What did I do this morning? Or yesterday? Was there a yesterday actually? Continue reading “Covid-19: When flagged as high-risk”
As with most of our trips at the time, this was a spontaneous decision. Air Canada Rouge had just opened a new destination to Venice and the price was really good. Continue reading “Venice, May 2016”
We’ll have another post on Venice and our activities there in the spring of 2016. We visited about a year before anti-tourist protests would begin, Continue reading “Venice as we saw it then”
Happy Birthday Anne!
We’ll start this storyline with our visit to Milan and Mutti in 2016. Continue reading “Anne, Milan & Mutti, Italy”
Why virtual itinerary?
We still have a few posts from Morocco coming, but in the meanwhile we are starting a new storyline – Virtual itinerary.
All the stories in this storyline are real. Continue reading “Why virtual itinerary?”
Jan 22
Today we hiked in the mountains and I felt at home again. Continue reading “High Atlas Mountains at last”
The speed with which everything is changing is frightening. We don’t even have time to analyse emotions or for the emotions to sink in. Continue reading “Lightspeed”
Jan 21
This was another short ride day. Today we’d travel on the “Route of 1000 Kasbahs”. Continue reading “Aït Ben Haddou”
A Black Swan is a metaphor describing a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics. Continue reading “The Black Swan”
Jan 20
We left the beautiful and ever-changing landscape of the Sahara dunes for the stunning snowy peaks of the High Atlas Mountains. Continue reading “George in Todra Gorge”
The sun is completely up here at 8 am. And everybody was out to watch it. Continue reading “The Desert”
We ended a very long day with African dancing and learning the drums around the fire at the edge of the desert. Continue reading “From chaos in Fez Medina to Desert silence”
You have probably heard of Fès, because of its famous red cylindrical hat with a tassel. Continue reading “Fès (or Fez, if you prefer)”
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