Well, Broad Creek does have a lot of water and a lot of boats, just like Venice. However, Venice certainly has a lot of other things Broad Creek doesn’t have, such as souvenir shops every 15 feet, gelato vendors next to every souvenir stand, restaurants between every gelato and souvenir stand—plus the one big thing… Read more

We decided not to attempt to take a metro to our 9:15 tour of the Vatican today. Because few information points in Italy give an English translation, it’s very difficult to understand what to do and how to do it. Also, very few speak English so that it is understandable. Because we had used Uber… Read more

After arriving in Rome in the rain last night, we walked to our hotel, Hotel Lirico, which was 10 minutes but the rain did stop. The hotel is next door to the Rome Opera but we did not go. Instead we left our luggage and walked around until we found a menu that looked like… Read more

GRAFFITI—We’ve spent a lot of time on trains since we arrived in Europe. What I’ve observed as we travel along the rails is the amount of graffiti painted on any and everything. The interesting part of the graffiti is that it all looks very similar in form. It’s almost as if the artists have all… Read more

We were on top of things today! That’s because we were at Jungfraujoch, the highest rail station in Europe at 11,333 feet. It’s also billed as the highest chocolate store, the highest watch store and, of course, the highest souvenir shops. But it is so much more. It is between two massive mountains in the… Read more

Our arrival in Switzerland has certainly been a high point. We traveled all day by train from Paris to arrive in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. The town looks exactly like one would expect a Swiss town to look like—shutters around the windows, flower boxes in front of the windows with beautiful blooming flowers. Just imagine a Swiss… Read more

The Eiffel Tower is all that it is promoted to be.  Karen had made reservations many months ago so that we could eat a meal on the first floor of the tower. We had precise instructions of what time to be there, where to go and not to be late. We follow instructions well. We… Read more

How would like to have a group of folks around your bed in the morning to watch you get up and get dressed? Even more, how would you enjoy a different crowd of folks around  your bed when you undressed, went to bed and then watched you fall asleep? But, can you even imagine this?… Read more

We have several stops today but wanted to start out with a French breakfast. A little restaurant near our hotel had a big sign out front—in English—that advertised pancakes. When our waitress came for our order I told her I wanted two pancakes with syrup. She looked surprised and said asked, “Two pancakes? They are… Read more

Today we had to leave London, a massive city and many interesting sights. A friend asked if we flew to Paris and the answer is yes, sort of. We checked out of our hotel, took the tube to the train station St. is Pancras where we were booked on the Eurostar to Paris for 12:31.… Read more