The old part of Split is tucked away in the ruins of a Roman palace and we’ll be exploring the city for a bit. We will leave here on a ferryboat bound for our last Dalmatian coast destination, Dubrovnik. Dioklecijanova Palace A fortress-like palace built by Roman Emperor Gaius Aurelia Valeria Diocletian in the 3rd century AD as his summer residence in his homeland. It…
We took a trip to see Vienna with its Gothic churches, Budapest, ‘the Paris of the East’ and Bratislava with its futuristic bridge and medieval old town. First we went to Vienna and saw the Karlskirche. They had these huge mirror balls hanging from the top. You could see the whole church and yourself reflected in the balls. We also took an elevator way up…
I’m a big “Game of Thrones” fans so when my husband had a conference in Dubrovnik where they film the series, I was definitely coming along. More than being a setting for this HBO fantasy series, the place is filled with old world charm and city walls that have stood the centuries and you can walk along them and gain a feel of life long…
We headed to the big Swiss city of Zurich and took a short funicular up to see over the city on the lake. I went to a restaurant that put cheese on everything, yummy. Lucerne was a city of wooden bridges. They were long and went across this clear river. It was rainy a bit so it was nice not to have to get wet. …
Rovinj is a picturesque former Venetian village on a hill in the blue waters of the Adriatic Sea that we hope to spend a day at while we’re in Croatia. Its red-shingled houses surround the St. Euphemia Cathedral at the top of the hill with the highest tower in Istria at 200 feet. The town started out as a small settlement in Roman times to…
My dad’s took me off on another adventure this time to Liechtenstein, an actual kingdom, yet we first had to drive through Switzerland. We took a car ferry across Lake Constance on the way. You could see the Alps as you crossed the lake. Next stop was Bern where we were visiting my dad’s cousins who live in Europe. Here you can see a Glockenspiel…
We will be staying one night in Venice on our way to the Croatian coast to my husband’s conference in Dubrovnik. My husband and I spent a vacation just the two of us several years ago and this time we would like for our son to experience it. We will start our adventure here by taking a vaporetto, which is Venice’s public transportation system, from…
When we got back from Hamburg my dad had more adventures for us around Munich including making my own rope and going into the mountains. Our friends took us to farming museum in the Bavarian Alps. Here I learned about milling and saw how Bavarians lived in the past. Best of all I put together my own rope. I helped the rope maker spin the…
Munich parks are amazing with lots of playgrounds, which is good news for an active boy. I’m checking out quite a few with Andrew while we’re here. The largest is the Englischer Garten (English Garden), which even includes surfers! Englischer Garden It all started in 1789 when Elector Carl Theodor ordered that a public park be established along the Isar River. The park was given…
We visited Hamburg to see a close friend and tour a port city surrounded by water and see the sea. In Hamburg we got to go up this really tall church tower and look from the very top seeing the city lay out below us. We took a walk through the world’s first tunnel that went under a river. It was originally built for wagons…
