If you are like me and enjoy traveling for extended periods of time, especially in and around The European countries then it is essential that you are aware of the Shengen Boarders Agreement. The original document was signed into existence on June 14, 1985. In it’s current form it includes travel rules/restrictions for 26 European…
I’ve been fortunate to have traveled to many distant places all over the world. And maybe you might think I’m a little odd but i always try to learn a little bit of the language before I go someplace new. I’ve often been told that “everyone speaks some english.”But that’s just not always true. On…
Hey there – i know it’s been a bit since I posted anything here but I have been inspired lately to get back to the blog and enlighten my readers to the wonderful world of travel. Traveling about the world i have learned a lot about the ins and outs of travel as well as…
I knew well before arriving in Athens that there was no way I would be able to make the ferry at Lavrio in order to get to Kea Island where I was headed to begin my three month odyssey in Greece by attending the Kea Artisanal cooking vacation. So when the plane was about 40…
I love to travel. And often I am looking for some new adventure, some new thing that I haven’t done before. Often all it really takes is thinking about the things I like to do and then add a little travel to that. It’s like cooking..a pinch of this and a pinch of that an…
Well I’m off on another adventure and this one will be my longest yet. I have only just arrived on Kea Island in Greece. Kea is devoid of tourists primarily as there is little here for tourists. Actually I am told that this island is the place that a lot of Greeks travel to when…
As I travel about Australia doing a bit of this and a lot of that I often find that I am given considerable pause when I find myself looking at some really cool colorful plant life that I have never seen anywhere before. I am at once in a state of awe and amazement. And…
I have been asked by several of my friends and others about the castle that is at the header of this blog. That, in fact is a picture of Malahide Castle in Dublin County, Ireland. When I was traveling in Ireland in the late fall of 2007 I happened to be at Trinity college where…
This is the first post on this brand new blog. In just about a week I will be traveling to Ireland and Italy. I have set up this blog so that I can chronicle this and many other adventures as I travel about the world and even my own backyard here in Maine,. I am…