July 24, 2019 I’ve been on many food tours, but the crown should go to today’s Culinary Backstreets tour. Not only was there good food and wine, but there was fabulous camaraderie with...
July 24, 2019 I’ve been on many food tours, but the crown should go to today’s Culinary Backstreets tour. Not only was there good food and wine, but there was fabulous camaraderie with...
July 13-14, 2019 What started in the planning stage as a two-week trip to Tbilisi, Georgia eventually morphed into a 7 ½ week trip starting in Istanbul and ending in Vilnius, Lithuania. Each...
July 15, 2019 The weather throughout the day was unpredictable – one-minute pouring rain, the next blue skies and sun, and yet another offered dark storm clouds. Walking through the drizzle to...
July 15, 2019 One of life’s guilty pleasures is going to a spa and getting a massage. However, it’s not usually something I do when I’m out of the country. But, when research says that Turkish bath...
July 16, 2019 As I walked around Old Town, I noticed that the queues for the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque (as with other sites) were long. The thought of standing in the sunshine and heat was...
July 16, 2019 “But madam, it will take you an hour to walk there!” said the gentleman manning the front desk at the hostel. We were discussing how to get to the meeting point for the night...