Amsterdam by foot, as many of you know, displays a charming cityscape of brick buildings in various hues of red and various harmonious styles dating back to the 17th century. The central city was endlessly…
We flew through Paris on the way to Iceland, partly to enjoy the city again and partly to catch a rare retrospective of the 19th century artist Eugene Delacroix. So we spent several pleasurable hours…
Rounding Iceland at say 2 to 4 on its clock face, after enjoying so much along the way, we started to think, yeah, OK, I've seen all the the country has to offer. Not quite.…
Here are some of the things we enjoyed around this spectacular country…in three geographical regions. Secondly, the north, which we felt represented Iceland in microcosm and was a good area to explore if you have…
Here are some of the things we enjoyed around this spectacular country…in three geographical regions. First, the west. We drove the complete ring road of Iceland, a roughly 1400 kilometer trip according to Iceland, but…
Here's our final salute to Romania with a potpourri of people, places and things. And a nod to the Romanian language, which you know more about than you think, as it is derived mainly from…
The eight World Heritage wooden churches in the west of Romania are far different from the east's impressively painted churches (see that post here). The latter were Orthodox Christian built by royalty up to the…
In the northeast, we drove hundreds of kilometers amid the mountains, hills and valley - no road was the same and each of them presented either glorious vistas or atmospheric landscapes. In the west, amid…
As if painted churches and wooden churches, low costs, colorful old cities, and delightful terrain weren't enough to entice you to Romania, you can also visit quite a number of ancient castles and fortified churches…
The Orthodox religion flourished amid the rugged hills and rich valleys of Moldavia, the kingdom of eastern Romania. Influence from Slavic lands and old Constantinople made eastern Christianity strong here. By the middle ages, Moldavia's…