I have been feeling a bit self-conscious blabbling about my carefree rambles through La Bella Italia while so much of what I care for back home is under siege. But […]

Wait, you’re saying (quite reasonably, I might add) – didn’t you already do the Cinque Terre thing? It was, like, just one blog post ago, right?…

Okay, I tried, I really tried. Florence was like that girl that your friends fix you up with: “You’ll love her! She’s smart like you, and gorgeous. Drop dead gorgeous.”

And she is both…

So, that last post was about holding my nose and signing up for a “group experience,” then, well, really enjoying it. So I decided to roll the dice again. My […]

Y’all know that I carry a bit of misguided pride on being that sort of solo traveler who tends to shun preplanned group activities in favor of venturing out unguided […]

Probably at the top of the list of sentences I wouldn’t have expected to utter, but seem perfectly normal at the end of two weeks in Berlin is: “Let’s cross […]

We continue to wander, now joined by Devon, who arrived a couple of days ago. As before, the routine seems to be to pick a destination, maybe two, and allow […]

My first inkling that this wasn’t a normal coffee shop was when the armed guard at the atrium asked for my passport and directed me to the stern couple standing […]

There’s more serious, historical stuff to write about, but for now I’m going to spend a bit of time on what we’re spending most of our time on: wandering. Each […]