I love the time of the year when the leaves turn from green to yellow, orange and red. In order to make sure I didn’t miss fall foliage this year, I booked a weekend in Pontresina. One of my favorite times to visit Engadin is in Autumn. This year I was about a week or […]
Autumn
ViaRhenana: Days 4-6
Right after I finished the first three days of my hike along the Rhine River, I started making plans for the next leg of the trip. This time a dear friend joined me. We packed our backpacks and took the train to Schaffhausen where Day 4 of the ViaRhenana begins. Day 4: Unlike the last […]
Mustard and Burgundy
October rolled around and it was time for Alex and me to go on our annual “foodie weekend”. After Cheese in Bra, the Salone del Gusto in Turin and last year’s trip to Bologna, we decided it was time to enjoy French delights again. Interestingly enough, we started this annual tradition with our first trip […]
Architecture in Frankfurt
Up until fairly recently, the only thing I associated with Frankfurt was the name of the main airport in Germany. That changed the day my sister sent me a picture she had taken in old town during an unintended layover. I did some research and decided we needed to go for a visit. Frankfurt is […]
A Taste of Bologna
As faithful readers know, Alex and I go on annual foodie-weekends. Due to the facts that both of us had been on extended travels this year and general things happening in life, we had more of less decided to skip this year. But then I told her a friend of mine had waxed poetic about […]
Postcard from Venice
It was late in the afternoon when I walked out of the Mestre train station in Venice. There weren’t many tourists, and I quickly bought a ticket for the vaporetto which would take me to my hotel next to the Rialto bridge. As the boat pulled away from the pier, I took a deep breath […]