For the next six weeks or so, we’re on the road again – with a trip to the US Yesterday was the first of two days on board the California Zephyr – the Amtrak train that runs between San Francisco and Chicago. We’re not going the whole way – only as far as Denver, Colorado…
Continuing our On The Road Again series – for Thursday, we are in Berkeley, California. And a store that has been a Berkeley institution, one way or another, since the 1930s. There are are former S.H. Kress stores all across America – and most of the “Five and Dime” stores are showpieces of the architecture…
We’re on the road again – this time, a rail-and-road trip around the western states of the US. We’ve started in San Francisco – and last night, we went to our first baseball game with our daughter Lini, and son in law Joe. Whenever I thought of San Francisco and baseball (which is not, I have…
For the next six weeks or so, we’re on the road again – with a trip to the US to see our daughter Lini, and son in law Joe. We’ve started in San Francisco .. and from that city comes the Stockton Street tunnel, which is effectively below our Worldmark resort. Built in 1914, the…
For the next six weeks or so, we’re on the road again – with a trip to the US to see our daughter Lini, and son in law Joe. Then we are heading off on a train, then a road trip, and a cruise … so we’ll be posting pics from our travels as they…
This week, our Travel pics series has been K for Koper. And we’ll end with a view of the Slovenian coast as we sailed away. There’s something very special about a sunset, especially one on board a ship. And this one was extra special – we’d just spent a lovely day in Koper, in Slovenia – and…
This week, our Travel pics series is K for Koper. For Saturday, it’s the city’s Praetorian Palace – but despite the name, it doesn’t date back to the Roman Emperors although it does have a connection to the original Roman empire. It takes its name from the Praetor, an ancient title meaning general or magistrate – and the palace…
This week, our Travel pics series is K for Koper. It’s a beautiful city in a beautiful region – with the Julian Alps as a backdrop to the north-east. They are a mountain range that make up part of the Southern Limestone alps, running from Italy into Slovenia. Not as spectacular as their Northern cousins, in Austria…
This week, our Travel pics series will be K for Koper. For Thursday, an apparently random courtyard – but in fact, it’s not. Random, I mean – obviously, it’s a courtyard … I can’t be certain – because I don’t speak either Slovenian or Italian, but I suspect this is the site of the Consulate General of…
This week, our Travel pics series is K for Koper. For Wednesday, it’s a hidden gem. Or a not-so-hidden one. We were coming to the end of a 25-night cruise from the Caribbean to Venice when we called in to Koper, in Slovenia. Half our party had gone on a shore excursion, but my wife, one of…
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