Travel & Life Vignettes
For our time in Buenos Aires – a little over a month – we rented a high rise apartment in the trendy Palermo Soho area, a stone’s throw from the Plaza Italia. The city charmed…
We took a morning flight from Cape Town to Windhoek, the small capitol of Namibia, where we spent an afternoon and a night to check out the town of 350,000 or so, and stock snacks…
Table Top Mountain Table Top Mountain is, of course, the iconic backdrop to the city. At 3,500 feet, it is often buffeted by winds or in the clouds. But on a beautiful day, it’s spectacular.…
The Festive Season in Cape Town, as it’s called in South Africa, is a remarkably quiet time for both locals and tourists. Goverment Avenue is usually busy with students in school uniform, domestics commuting, walking…
Two nights in Joahannesburg. Just a tech-stop, really. We’d spent a couple of days here previously and just wanted to take a break on our way to Cape Town. And, as it turned out, it…
Campo dei Fiori, Rome. Just outside the door of the first apartment at which we stayed, and the source of raw material for much self-catering. It is said you can’t find a bad meal in…
Pompeiian streets, engineered for both wains and water, buried under 30 feet of ash and pyroclastic mud for nearly 2,000 years, here and now in the clear light of morning. Pompeii’s central forum, center of…
Vesuvius, from our Sorrento hotel room balcony, with at its feet Herculaneum on the left and Pompei on the right. The cliffs of Sorrento. The Amalfi Coast is all the rave with Americans, but the…
Naples has gifted two things to the world: pizza and a canvas for graffiti. I’m not sure if the crisp sloppy pizzas currently in vogue are anything like the ones that started the legend of…
Via della Conciliazione, the Way of Concilliation, leading to Piazza San Pietro and St. Peter’s Basillica. Entering the Vatican through the Vatican Museum. We booked a “very small group, early entry” tour. We were among…