Yet another religious day where I got to wander from church to church. I spent today in the pilgrimage town of Assisi. Literally a shining city on the hill as I’ve been able to see this city from miles away for the past several days. Of course, on the day that I go there the…

Based on the weather predictions for the few days, I chose to go to the city of Perugia with the hope of a rain free day. Thankfully, the rain held off and I was able to wander the city without an umbrella. I was also lucky that this city also had escalators up to the…

Woke up to some actual sunshine today. Don’t worry it didn’t last. Breakfast was barely passable but I dot blame the hotel too much as there was almost no one at the hotel so no real reason to put out too many items that they would just have to throw out. Stepping out and looking…

Yet another rainy day today. Thankfully, I never got caught in the heavy rain outside of my car. I spent the morning at the ruins of Paestum, a former Greek colony eventually taken over by Rome. People mostly go because they have relatively intact temples. Once again, today will be mostly images. Lunch was just…

I got to experience hail and a lot of rain today. The road put to Herculaneum turned white with the amount of hail that hit the ground in just a few minutes. The positive was that all the drivers threw on their hazard lights and dropped to 50kph. Safest I’ve felt driving down here yet!…

The ruins of Pompeii are one of the most popular stops on any trip to Italy. Until today, I had never managed to get down to them. My plan had originally been to walk the short distance from my hotel to the gate nearby but the audio tour that I reserved was, naturally, at the…

It’s time again for another series of posts that start out with a lot of descriptions and get progressively more image heavy. For this trip, I am headed back to Italy but to regions that are new to me. My trip starts in Pompeii, to visit the ruins, and the heads up to the region…

The morning started with a fun elevator ride in my car as I headed out from my hotel in Oslo. My main stop today was a trio of museums int western Oslo devoted to their maritime history. The first museum was the Kon-Tiki Museum, devoted to the experiential expeditions of Thor Heyerdahl. There were two…

Yesterday was mostly just traveling to Oslo and resting with one quick stop at the ruins of a cathedral. Thus not much worth posting. This morning started with a trip to the Viking Planet. This multimedia museum includes movies, VR and interactive exhibits. One of the parts I found very interesting was a virtual tour…

My only full day in the town of Lillehammer was spent, almost exclusively, at the open air museum of Maihaugen. Just like the folk museum from yesterday, the Maihaugen museum was created to preserve historic homes of as many periods as possible. The oldest buildings were first started in the 1200’s and the youngest were…