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The Italian road trip
We came back yesterday morning from a wonderful week-long road trip through Italy. We started out in Pisa last Wednesday, February 18th, and returned from that same city yesterday, on February 25th....
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Italian road trip – Day 1 – Pisa
Click to view slideshow. Our Italian road trip started in Pisa on February 18th. A map of Pisa and the surrounding region. We arrived at Pisa Airport via Ryanair around 11 am. The airplane passed Pisa,...
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Driving from Sibiu to Constanta
This morning around 4 am, Ligia and I started a cross-country drive through Romania. We started in the county of Sibiu, Transilvania and finished in the county of Constanta, Dobrogea. I’ve driven the...
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Videos from yesterday’s trip
I recorded a couple of videos during yesterday’s trip from Sibiu to Constanta. I forgot to included them in the write-up, but they make a good addition to it. Here they are. The first was recorded as...
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Italian road trip – Day 2 – Florence
Our Italian road trip took us from Pisa to Florence, where we arrived on the evening of February 18th, just as dusk set in. We navigated the Florence streets at night with some difficulty, but arrived...
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I like "The Saint"
It got panned by the critics. Val Kilmer’s acting was indulgent at times. It was somewhat cliché. What was up with those knee-high socks that Elizabeth Shue’s character wore throughout the movie? Those...
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A trip through Bucovina
As announced, we returned last week from a road trip that took me through northern Maramures, Bucovina, Moldova and northern Transilvania. (These are all provinces in Romania, by the way.) Ligia, my...
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Christoph Rehage's China hike
Christoph Rehage walked through China for a year, on foot, while letting his hair and beard grow. The total distance walked was 4,646 km. He took photos of himself along the way, then put them together...
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New town center, Baia Mare, Romania
We began our recent trip through Bucovina in the city of Baia Mare, the capital of the province of Maramures in Romania. A few interesting tidbits about the city: It has a Mediterranean-like climate,...
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Italian road trip – Day 3 – Venice – Part 1
On the third day of our Italian road trip, we left Florence and started on our way to Venice. This post contains 50 photos, so get ready to spend about 15-20 minutes here. You can see a slideshow...
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Italian road trip – Day 3 – Venice – Part 2
Part 1 of the Venice leg of our Italian road trip ended with our entrance into the Piazza di San Marco. That’s where this story begins. As you can see on the map, the city of Venice isn’t made up of a...
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Boat ride on Lake Vidraru
Remember my time-lapse video of the boat ride on Lake Vidraru? Well, this is the behind-the-scenes, the B-roll if you will, of that time spent on the boat. The name of the boat is the Mirena and at its...
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The Pullman Hotel in Bucharest
This is probably the first hotel review I’ve ever published on my site, but I feel strongly about this and wanted to share my thoughts with you. It’s not often I have high praise for a hotel. I do for...
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Italian road trip – Day 5 – Crossing Italy from Grottammare to Rome
After a hearty breakfast, we explored the Grottammare fortress and beach, then got on the road to Rome. That’s right, that day we planned to cross the whole of Italy, from the coast of the Adriatic Sea...
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A visit to The Breakers in Palm Beach
Back when we visited the Flagler Museum, we also visited and stayed at The Breakers in Palm Beach, an historic hotel. I honestly thought I’d published these photos long ago but no, I forgot. I did...
View ArticleA spring outing to the forest
There's a forest near the village of Pelișor (where we're restoring the fortified church and parochial house through our NGO) that we love to visit. It's the same forest where I took these other...
View ArticleItalian road trip – Day 7 – Ladispoli, Capalbio, Rosignano Marittimo
Twelve years after our road trip, I still haven’t published the photos taken during its last day. At a time like this, when travel is a somewhat distant memory for most, and draconian travel rules...
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