Anybody who has been to Venice or has heard of Venice knows how beautiful it is-it is the city without cars and is made up of a crisscrossed interconnected network of canals and pedestrian paths. It’s claustrophobic to an extent, until you reach an opening… Read More »The Labyrinth City: Venice
I spent five nights in Florence, like Rome I wanted to be able to take my time and see everything; experience the city without rushing and enjoy my time walking through it. Within those five nights I slept in three different places; my first night I… Read More »Florence for the New Year
This year I decided to finally pursue one of my goals and travel to Italy during Christmas break. I went from December 24th until January 8th; I spent 5 nights in Rome, 5 nights in Florence, 2 nights in Venice, 2 nights in Verona and 1… Read More »Christmas in Rome
On Saturday I went to the UK for a day, but not the UK everybody is probably thinking of. Located on the southern most tip of the Iberian Peninsula, just south of Andalusia, about an hour 40 from me, lies the British Overseas territory known as Gibraltar.… Read More »UK for the Day
If Lisbon is a hidden gem, Porto is its forgotten brother. Some people may have heard of it because of port wine; but most haven’t. Out of every city I’ve visited Porto is one of my favorites. It’s located in northern Portugal on the Duoro River,… Read More »A Place I’d Never Be Able to Drive Stick, Porto!
This year, I decided to spend my birthday in Portugal with Christine. She went to Madrid to get her ESL certification and teach for the year. I would have loved to have been home and spend the weekend with my friends and sister in Montauk,… Read More »Birthday In Lisbon
Budapest is a home to a unique and exciting nightlife that began at beginning of the 21st century. For many, Y2K was the end of the world and civilization as we knew it, with thousands bracing for chaos; in Budapest, it was the turning point… Read More »Biligerent Budapest
My last stop of the journey. I was in Budapest from April 3rd to the 7th and could have stayed had I had my suitcases. My first thought upon arriving was, that it looked like a dirty Vienna; It’s hard for any city to match… Read More »A Troubled Past, A Bright Future: Budapest
On my third and final day in Austria I had planned to make it a day of visiting castles, or “castle day”. Iwent to visit Kruezenstein Castle (pictured above) and had plans to see Lichtenstein Castle. Kruezenstein Castle is located a few kilometers from Vienna on… Read More »Castle day!….kind of
Vienna was a city I didn’t really have a strong desire to see, but it was between Hallstatt and Salzburg; it had an awesome looking castle close by that I wanted to see and it was a logical stop on the way to Budapest. I’m… Read More »The City of Music, Vienna