Not quite the day I had hoped for today. I was trying the peninsula south of Killarney and its Ring of Beara but I didn’t get too far along. Unfortunately, unlike its better known cousins to the north the Ring of Beara seems to suffer from a lack of views for a good portion of…

Today’s plan was to drive the Ring of Kerry with the hope of seeing the southern section that I had blasted through on my last trip. The rain from yesterday finished some time in the early morning, leaving a fantastic heavy fog to welcome me up into the mountains and really set a great tone…

It’s been around two years but I have finally made my way back to Ireland. The plan, this time around, is to see a few more places that I wasn’t able to catch previously. The second part of that plan is to not slip and fall on the first day, again. Getting to Ireland, from…

Another fun day in Venice! Had a little bit of a rough night, the mattress of my hotel bed is not new, in need of replacement and not even close to firm. Breakfast was great and got me on my way to my first stop of the day, St. Mark’s Basilica. The Basilica is one…

I said goodbye to Tuscany and hello to Venice today. This morning was supposed to be a simple drop off of my rental car and an easy walk over to the train station. I left from the villa I had been staying at early because I always worry about time when I have a schedule…

Today was my last day in Tuscany and, thankfully, I was a bit less fuzzy today. It is never fun to get sick on a trip. On the agenda today was Florence with the hope that I would get to the city in time to see some of the Easter celebration at the Duomo. After…

Today’s blog is going to be a bit light on descriptive content. What I had hoped was allergies seems to be turning into a full head cold. This combined with the Zyrtec that I took and apparently wasn’t the non-drowsy formula means that I limped through most of today in a kind of haze. The…

Today’s intended travels were supposed to included San Gimignano and Volterra. I only got as far as San Gimignano. But before all of that, I did remember to take some shots of both my room and my hotel. Due to a mistake on my part I had to upgrade my room a bit to get…

Today will be a combo post of my last partial day in Croatia and my first partial day in Italy. My last day in Split was pretty darn good! The hotel I was staying at was kind enough to hold my bag for me during the day so that I could wander the town a…

I’m afraid today will be another day with little to tell. This morning I finally got to go to the ruins of the Roman town of Salona. Salona was just a bit north of Split and when it was sacked several times in the 6th century. The survivors fled to Split and rebuilt their lives…