Tuscan food is celebrated, and for good reason: it is delicious! Florence is an excellent base for getting into this sort of thing if you are interested in […]
Europe / Italy
Florence on Fleet Feet
Monkey Launchers can be a useful tool on the Italian rails. The train into Florence was slower than we anticipated. For a reason still unknown to us, we […]
Europe / Italy
Cinque Terre
In terms of raw atmosphere, you can’t beat Cinque Terre. These little towns, joined together by a rail line and a foot path, are all you could ask […]
Europe / Italy
Milan tidbits
City of fashion! I really enjoyed Milan. It was beautiful to look at and relatively easy to navigate with an extensive subway infrastructure and plenty of buses. Upon […]
Europe / Italy
The Verona Flyby
Two houses both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene… That is all I knew about the city before I got there. And while […]
Europe / Italy
The Maze: Venezia
Venice is nowhere near as smelly as people told me it would be. It is, however, exactly as confusing as it was rumored to be. You will get […]
Albania / Europe
Scotty and Berat, Albania: A winning combination
Berat: Always a good choice. The ride to Berat was billed at 2 hours, though with stopping and picking up every straggler on the side of the road, […]
Albania / Europe
Tirana, Albania: a city worth passing through
Tirana at 4 a.m. isn’t the most beautiful or friendly place. If you have the good fortune of meeting the only Muslim breakdancers in Albania, though, it may […]
Europe
To Albania. From Turkey.
Weeks ago I met a woman in Belgrade, named Debbie. According to her friends, she is perhaps the most well traveled woman I have ever met. Not just […]
Europe / Turkey
Arafta bir yabancı: my Turkish life
Araf means: limbo… between life and dead where you can’t be alive or dead and you can’t touch either of them. Arafta bir yabancı means ‘a stranger in […]