I had a little run in this afternoon with a very large volcano. I didn’t fare nearly as well as it did.
As I mentioned in the last post, yesterday afternoon Mike and I decided to take a guided hike up Pacaya Volcano. We paid our $20 and waited patiently for the shuttle […]
Things have definitely taken a turn for the the better since our arrival in Antigua. While conditions in our hotel room have improved slightly (we finally got the light in the bathroom fixed and received additional towels), we decided to make a move to a smaller, more upscale hotel for our last few days […]
Read more…Nope, we aren´t in the Caribbean, but rather in the former capital of Guatemala.
While there is still a lot for us to write regarding our time in Panajachel on Lake Atitlian, I had some time this morning as I was eating a bagel for breakfast and thought I would share our recent excursion to and […]
Our flight to Guatemala was remarkable in that, at an hour and a half, it was actually shorter than our wait at the airport.
When we arrived, the shuttle that was supposed to pick us up was nowhere in evidence. Thankfully, amongst the many signs advertizing shuttles to Antigua, we spotted one for Panajachel, our […]
OK, neither one of us has written anything for a very long time. We got really lazy during an extremely rainy October. Then we got kind of busy, and never picked up steam on the blog again. I think part of the problem was our desire for high quality writing. It ended up […]
Read more…Since our trip to Europe this summer we have gotten re-acquainted with our adopted home town (as we were gone for about 6 weeks), survived a horrendous rainy season (including a deadly landslide just a few miles from our our house) and spent a week in NYC visiting family and friends. Unfortunately the memory […]
Read more…In addition to the leafy green trees, colorful flowers and blooming plants, something else “good” has come out of rainy season this year. Can’t say what Mike got out of it but for me, an amazing appetite for cooking (and of course, eating).
Rainy season this year in the Central Valley has been exceptionally heavy. […]
As Mike mentioned in his earlier post, Bologna is unique in that visitors can stroll under porticos that cover almost 40 km of its sidewalks around the city center. One has no weather excuses, neither rain nor excess sun, preventing him from seeing all that Bologna has to offer.
In my research of Bologna prior […]
Bologna was our first stop in Italy. We’d boarded a train in Annecy, France at 9:46 AM, changed trains an hour later in the border town of Chambery, and arrived in Bologna at 5:45 PM. Quite the long day of travel.
We were a bit confused about the distance from the train station to our […]
During the planning of our trip to Italy this summer, many people advised us that 3 days in Assisi was way to much time to spend there. But since our hotel was already booked, we tried to find interesting day trips to occupy our time. Unfortunately, or so we thought, we soon realized all […]
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