There is no equivalent to Venice. This city defines Italy with its elegance, renaissance marble architecture, music, shipping and world exploration, right up to the color palettes of its artists. It also defines crowded tourism and near-extortion for many basic...
Let’s start in Naples. Before heading out to Capri, let’s talk about boats. While my host, Bruno, does his maritime stuff here in Naples, I get a tour of the boatyard. I won’t even begin to describe these beauties–Stradivarius of the Seas so...
The Church of Santa Maria del Fiori otherwise known as The Dome–the first octagonal domed structure built without an exterior wooden frame dominates the Florence skyline. I took a course in Architecture in 1967 right after returning from Vietnam–I had...
In Veresa Italy this year I am invited to give a short presentation about my 1899 Tugboat, Katahdin. This is a rare treat as I’m quite near by in France so it’s a hop through Marsailles, Nice and Milan where I meet up with Bruno Cianci, a maritime writer...
Leaving Leysin, I work my way south, one train station at a time, due to French train strike, now in its 6th week, but no one seems to care and trains mysteriously run more or less on time. I easily make Avignon by evening (from Geneva) and take a nice hotel. The...
But, I’ll start in Berlin…. Leaving Oslo and heading south takes me to warmer weather. My first stop is quite serindepitous when I receive an invite from Bernd (and his wife Christine), an avid reader of this blog, to visit Berlin. The last time I saw...
