Slovenia has an excellent Tourism slogan . . . . . “I FEEL sLOVEnia”. And I have to agree! Driving into Slovenia from Italy, I’m still trying to get my head around what Slovenia’s part was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire that ended after World War I. There’s a definite ‘Austrian’ feel to the countryside as …
Travelling with Edmundo, who has worked for so long in Mexico as well as in Europe, has finally brought the story of one of many of the inter-marrying European Royal households to life. What is more annoying for me, is that Ken Turner knows as much, or more than Edmundo! What a dummy I feel. …
The Crystal Serenity sailed right up to the edge of the Piazza Unità d’Italia, the main piazza in Trieste. We went ashore and simply walked to our hotel the Duchi D’Aosta across the street. Amazing! The piazza is larger than St Mark’s in Venice and surrounded on three sides by beautifully restored Venetian, Austrian and …
Only one day to go, and I haven’t stopped to sit and listen to the sea, even for one moment on this cruise! This morning I’m on my balcony in gown having a trimmed down breakfast of one boiled egg and a slice of brown toast with my coffee with Dubrovnik glistening over there in …
There’s something mystical and exciting about gliding silently between fjords into a strange, new land as the sun comes up. It”s so quiet and I can hear the birds on shore. They are as excited with the new day as I am to be sailing into perhaps my most anticipated port of the whole …