Category: Travel

First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Do whatever steps you want, if You have cleared them with the Pontiff. Everybody say his own Kyrie eleison, Doin’ the Vatican Rag. Follow the link to see pictures

“Qualifications?” “Stampeding cattle”. “That does not sound like so much” ” Through the Vatican?” For some reason this guy objected. (Link to pix to follow when I get back home this weekend.) But I did get to play with my Digital SLR today-and got some pix from the Sistine Chapel

Greetings from Bella Napoli. Herbal wins the prize for correct guess. Rode the bus to near Bagnoli last night, but never came close to the location of its most infamous former denizen. The remarkable thing about Naples is how little it really changes-even while it changes. The trams no long

In Brussels, near the center square in town is a small statue. His claim to fame-he’s pissing! In Japan they had a whole series of commercials for a soft drink, Dakara that featured this little guy: He’s actually called the Manneken Pis-Dutch for little man pissing-he has been there since

While staying in Bonn, we drove up to Cologne. We visited the famous cathedral located on the West Bank of the Rhine River there: The cathedral is huge. Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete– a period of over 600 years. The

Unfortnately, the day I have been dreading has arrived. I have to go back to Shopping Mall USA tomorrow. Which is necessary, as poverty and joblessness does not become me well. However, I have felt more alive being across the pond and out of the USA than I have any

Well, the internet connection has turned out to be about as lazy as your average Frenchman-thus the posts have been lacking. Also truth be told-we have been covering a lot of territory between our first destination and our current one. As Paul guessed we were in Bonn for a day

Please forgive the lack of posts. Internet access was spotty in the hotel-while the beer in bar downstairs was quite reliable. Now in a different city-with better internet. Here are the clues for round one: Beethoven was born here. The UN has a headquarters here This city was the site

Out of pocket from Shopping Mall at the end of this week-as the S.O. and I go on a vacation over the holidays next week. Stay tuned for upcoming instalments of "Where's Waldo?".