Eastern Europe – Day 4

Written on August 25, 2018 in Hungary

Last day in Hungary! Our last excursion in Hungary was a bus trip to a town with medieval origins – Pecs. Arriving in the port of Mohacs, we were to be transferred by bus to Pecs. However, due to the low water conditions mentioned previously, our disembarkation process was not as easy as “hey, walk...

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Eastern Europe – Day 3

Written on August 24, 2018 in Hungary

Day 3 is the day we will be boarding our boat, although with the drought and very low water levels, our boat is unable to come to Budapest.  (There are several boats docked, that have been stuck in the dock for 10 to 14 days.)  Therefore, we’ll be shuttled to our boat via bus (about...

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Eastern Europe – Day 2

Written on August 23, 2018 in Hungary

Day 2 started with a really over-booked breakfast.  It was so over-booked, they opened up the bar downstairs, and moved us (and everyone after us) down to the second location. After breakfast we had a City Tour where we got to see quite a bit of the City, starting on the Pest side which included...

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Eastern Europe – Day 1

Written on August 22, 2018 in Hungary

Embarking on yet another adventure!  Our first flight – Kansas City to Chicago – was uneventful.  Rushed through Chicago due to our 53 minute layover only to find that our plane was delayed by 1:10.  No worries, right?!  We had a 4 hour layover in Toronto anyway. Wellllll…   as we stopped moving on the ta...

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Day 2 – Thanksgiving in Rome

Written on November 24, 2017 in Italy

This is an “After-the-Fact” post. Our first full day in Rome, started with one of the most unique experiences we’ve had to date – we visited the Necropoli of the Vatican!  This is a very limited tour (they only let a small number of people in per day), so we had made our reservations /...

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Day 1 – Thanksgiving in Rome

Written on November 23, 2017 in Italy

This is an “After-the-Fact” post. We were in Rome nine years ago for a very brief two days, and we always said we would like to visit again, so here we are!!  To our friends and family back home, Happy Thanksgiving!  After checking into the hotel, we took it easy in the afternoon in anticipation...

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Day 0 – Thanksgiving in Rome

Written on November 22, 2017 in Italy

This is an “After-the-Fact” post. We normally don’t report on Day 0, which is the day we leave Kansas City but this trip is an exception.  Departure was Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.  This is usually one of the WORST days for air travel, and the local news showed clips of long lines of people...

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Spring In Sweden

Written on April 1, 2016 in Sweden

Stockholm is a city in the flush of its second youth. Since the mid-1990s, Sweden’s capital has emerged from its cold, Nordic shadow to take the stage as a truly international city. What started with entry into the European Union in 1995 gained pace with the extraordinary IT boom of the late 1990s, strengthened with...

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On Safari in Botswana

Written on March 31, 2016 in Botswana

This is an “After-the-Fact” post. Thank you for your patience, but this specific post is generally a place-holder until we can come back in and provide a proper post for this visit.

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