I had previously been to the Ukraine in 2007 when I visited the Black Sea resort town of Odessa but was always disappointed that I wasn’t able to make it up to Kiev, which was actually the only capital city in Europe I had not been to so it was a natural choice for me […]
Moravia
April 16, 2009 by 3 Comments
Today I took a great daytrip from Prague across all of Moravia to the capital of Brno and one of the most beautiful cities in the Czech Republic, Olomouc. Brno is the capital and undisputed biggest city in Moravia, which is eastern Czech Republic, as opposed to Bohemia which is western. The differences are stark […]
Amazing Santorini
April 15, 2009 by 3 Comments
As those of you who read my site regularly know, I love lists and I also love to be surprised and taken aback by new places. It doesn’t happen often but I did a full day trip to Santorini and never wanted to leave. This amazing Greek island is right up in my top 3 […]
Crete for Easter
April 12, 2009 by 3 Comments
I spent the past holiday weekend in Crete, which is the southernmost Greek Island and the fifth largest in the entire Mediterranean Sea. The island certainly seemed bigger than that and the scenery, mixed with the people and the amazing food made for a great weekend. Crete was the last part of Greece that I […]
What a Day in the Alps!
April 5, 2009 by 4 Comments
We woke up very early and had a nice breakfast overlooking the Liechtenstein Alps and then drove up to Vaduz Castle. The castle overlooks the entire country basically and was a nice, relatively tame castle for this part of the world after what we saw yesterday with Neuschwanstein Castle. I put on my oasys for […]
Alpine Road Trip
April 3, 2009 by 4 Comments
As we left Prague to drive to Munich and Bohemia turned into Bavaria, the scenery became more and more beautiful. It was my second time in Munich but first in ten years and the last time I was here was for Oktoberfest which means I didn’t see too much aside from the obvious beer tents. […]
Juventus vs. Roma
March 22, 2009 by 1 Comment
Last night I finally got to my first Serie A football match and it happened to be a great game between two of the Giants of Italian and European football, AS Roma and the Northern Italian giants, Juventus. Juventus currently sits in second place in Serie A after just being eliminated from this years Champions […]
Palermo, Sicily
March 21, 2009 by 3 Comments
Palermo is a city that’s quite apart from the rest of Sicily’s urban spaces. Though it’s on the traditional end of the scale, it carries with it a sense of unpredictability and adventure. It’s streets are packed with traffic, it’s markets are a hive of hollers, smells and countless gastronomic offerings. The winding, palazzo strewn […]
Western Sicily
March 20, 2009 by 1 Comment
Western Sicily is ancient and rugged, tranquil and sunny and a fascinating introduction to the island. It looks today much of what it must’ve looked 100 years ago. There are shepherds herding their sheep, stone farmhouses dotting the horizon and fields of marsala grapes as far as the eye can see. It is almost perfect […]
Malta Magic
March 19, 2009 by 7 Comments
Malta was the last UN country in Europe that I had yet to visit so I was pretty psyched to get there. I was also psyched because I got to stay with and see my friend Tom whom I hadn’t seen in five years as he is living in Malta and I also got to […]
