Travel Stories
From Czech To Slovakia
Been Drivin’ all Day, My Hand’s Wet on the Wheel Up and out the door we are off to Slovakia today. John had the great idea of winding through Slovakia on the way back to Budapest. Sometimes it seemed…
Prague on our own
Communism Revisited We slept in this morning and then hiked off (more slowly today) to the Communism Museum. This was a museum dedicated to telling the sad story of Communism’s takeover of Czechoslovakia, followed by the Velvet Revolution and final…
Prague Walking Tour Continued
Charles Bridge Our guide Jan was waiting again with his tireless enthusiasm to lead us off to 4 more hours of hiking and an unending recital of dates and history to boggle our uneducated American minds. We started with the…
Prague Walking Tour
Prague Once we got to Prague, e found our hotel without incident. It is a actually a very large house across from the US embassy. It is called Dum u Velke Boty (the House of the Boot). The placid young…
Off to Hungary – Day One
Budapest Budaest here we come. After the redeye from Chicago, we had 5 hours to veg in Munich airports utilitarian modern decor. The stiff atmosphere was softened by Lufthansa’s free expresso machines for all passengers. Finally arriving in Budapest, we…
Christchurch Bed and Breakfast – Featherstone
If you don’t have 3 or 4 weeks to see New Zealand, you might want to consider flying to Christchurch from Auckland and maybe even on to Queenstown. We stayed in the Christchurch airport motel, on arrival because we could…
Coffee and Beer Guide for Americans in New Zealand
Since our 12th day in New Zealand consisted primarily of driving from Milford Sound to Mount Cook, I will devote this post to a guide for coffee and beer in New Zealand. Coffee in New Zealand
Milford Sound New Zealand
We had booked a cruise of Milford Sound and within an hour of our arrival were chugging away from the wharf. We were booked with Mitre Peak cruises for a small 40 person boat, but being the last cruise of…
Te Anau and the Milford Road – New Zealand
Te Anau Time pack up again and press on. I made fun of the New Zealand Policeman counseling session / speeding ticket, but I realize I had gotten back into the hurry sickness that makes travel unpleasant. Ever since the…
Hiking and Bungy – Queenstown New Zealand
After sorting through a myriad of options, we decided not to do the gondola ride, or the luge or the steamboat ride to the working sheep farm. We decided to hike, but then we had decide which hike. We settled…