Category: Travel
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Here is a short video I took of the Leaning Tower of Pisa when my daughter and I visited Italy. You will have to excuse the shaky start. You can check out the post of our visit HERE. I love photography but photos just could not capture the feel of standing in awe of […]
Sorrento, Italy
The last stop on our trip to the Amalfi Coast was Sorrento, Italy. Our driver let us out in the middle of town and our small group had a nice lunch at a quaint little restaurant. The best spot to start your shopping experience in Sorrento is right in the heart of town in Piazza Tasso. This large piazza is one […]
My “Under the Tuscan Sun” Moment
Under the Tuscan Sun I have seen this movie more times than I care to admit. It is one of my favorite movies and I live vicariously through Diane Lane every time I watch the movie. Maybe it’s because I can relate with her movie character. A woman who divorces her cheating husband, travels to […]
Positano, Italy
From the moment I arrived in Positano, I was in love. I read that it is the most photographed fishing village in the world and I can see why. There is something magical about the intricate winding roads, and we enjoyed exploring each alcove or shop as we traveled down to the sea. Like most […]
Carthage, Tunisia ~ Punic and Roman Ruins
Carthage is a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia, situated at the site of the ancient capital of the Carthaginian empire. It was little more than an agricultural village for nine hundred years until the middle of the 20th century; since then it has grown rapidly as an upscale coastal suburb. I snapped this pictures as we drove […]
Catalpa Trees ~ Historic Washington State Park
We have several large Catalpa trees at Historic Washington State Park where I work. I love it every year in the spring when all of the flowers bloom and then begin to fall in all late summer. It looks like the ground is covered in snow. The leaves on these trees are huge and the […]
Pompeii, Italy ~ Part 1
One of my favorite photos is this one of the forum with Mount Vesuvius in the background Romans took control of Pompeii around 200 BC. On August 24, 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby town of Pompeii in ash and soot, killing around 3,000 people, the rest of the population of 20,000 people having […]
Pompeii, Italy ~ Part 2
I had so many pictures of Pompeii, Italy that I had to make this a two-parter. Here is the link the Part 1 if you missed it. My daughter and I decided we couldn’t go to Italy without going to Pompeii. It’s one of those places you dream about seeing but never think you will. […]
Two things off my bucket list, travel to Italy (check), take picture of tornado (check)
Most people hear tornado sirens and run for cover, I hear them and grab my camera as I make a mad dash for the door. My heart starts pounding as I search the horizon for a whirling mass. With camera in hand, I watch and wait only to be disappointed time after time. This strange […]
Cagliari, Sardinia
Every morning I would wake up and run to the balcony to see what our next port looked like. I watched the sun rise as we pulled into each port and with camera in hand, took pictures of the most beautiful sunrises. To be honest, I’m not a morning person. A sunrise is that […]
PULA ~ Italy & Pink Flamingos
As we left Cagliari, Italy and headed to see the Ruins of Nora, we passed miles and miles of salt marshes filled with these beautiful pink flamingos. This was the first time I had seen this many flamingos at one time and the first time I had experienced flamingos in the wild. We also saw […]
Nora Archaeological Site in Sardinia, Italy
Where should we go? This is the first question one faces when planning a vacation. There are so many places in the world to visit which made choosing a cruise a difficult task. She would pick a date and read me a list of various port stops. When she mentioned Sardinia in one of the […]
Toulon, France
The third stop on our cruise was in Toulon, France. This was one of those stops where we had a guide book in hand as we left the ship. We walked to the bus stop and looked for the bus number the guide book said to take. There was no such bus number and we couldn’t […]
Monte Carlo, Monaco
The second stop on our Mediterranean cruise was Monte Carlo, Monaco. I had read that we would be able to see the city from the ship but I wasn’t prepared for the site that lay before me as arrived on deck for breakfast. It was beautiful, espeically the very large yacht next to our ship. […]
My “Under the Tuscan Sun” Moment
I have seen this movie more times than I care to admit. It is one of my favorite movies and I live vicariously through Diane Lane every time I watch the movie. Maybe it’s because I can relate with her movie character. A woman who divorces her cheating husband, travels to Italy, falls in love […]
Eze Village, France
One the second day of our cruise we docked in Monaco. My daughter had chosen to visit Eze Village, France while we were in port.. I had never heard of Eze Village and had done no research on it before we left. Let me back up a minute in case this is the first post […]
Dublin Airport Manor, Dublin, Ireland
When my daughter and I were looking for a place to stay when we landed in Ireland, we chose the Dublin Airport Manor. We were only staying one night and needed to be at the airport at 5:00 the next morning so we were looking for someplace near the airport. We read several great reviews about […]
Pisa, Italy
My daughter and I have just returned from our European vacation and I’m trying to recover from jet lag. I look over all of the photographs I took and I am awestruck by everything we saw in our whirlwind tour of seven countries. We took a Mediterranean cruise with Norwegian Cruise Lines, leaving from Civitavecchia for […]
Cinque Terre, Italy ~ Vernazza
Of all the villages in Cinque Terre, I think Vernazza was my favorite to photograph. It has colorful, antique homes that cling to steep cliffs and a lovely small harbor that shelters under the shadows of an ancient castle and a beautiful seaside church. Vernazza had massive flooding and mudslides that left the town buried in […]
Cinque Terre, Italy ~ Monterosso al Mare
Monterosso al Mare was the last village we visited. It had a different feel than the other village. The town is divided into two distinct parts: the old town and the new town. The two areas are divided by a single tunnel that caters to pedestrians and there are very few cars in the town. […]
