Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Business Travel on Jul 16th, 2010
Well, I’m finally on my way back to Tampa to remain there for more than 10 hours, unlike my earlier ‘visit’ home this week. This has been a really long week… between travels in/from Europe on Mon-Wed and work/meetings Thur-Fri. When I sit back and reflect on it, it’s actually fairly amazing that one can […]
Posted in Delta Airlines, Italy, Nieuw Amsterdam on Jul 14th, 2010
We’re currently at the Venice Marco Polo airport, awaiting our outbound flight to Tampa. We should be boarding in about 60 minutes. Disembarkation was very smooth this morning. We took a taxi to the airport, which was both cheap (45 euro vs. HAL’s $79 per person charge) and easy (we went from our cabin on […]
Posted in Italy, Nieuw Amsterdam on Jul 13th, 2010
We arrived back in Venice tonight. It’s a very warm and humid evening (getting us ready for home). As we’d been in Venice already and had to pack (etc.), I couldn’t have imagined venturing out into the sweltering, sticky heat. I plan to write my cruise review on the plane tomorrow and also organize most […]
Posted in Nieuw Amsterdam on Jul 13th, 2010
Since our good friend Dick does such a great job of describing his culinary adventures when traveling, I thought I’d provide some snaps of my lunch today in the Pinnacle Grill. I had the five onion soup, antipasto platter, blue cheese crusted filet mignon, and orange-lime panna cotta (not nearly as good as Dick’s). Given […]
Posted in Italy, Nieuw Amsterdam, Slovenia, Taxi on Jul 13th, 2010
This morning we awoke by 5:30 with a plan to “touch base” in Slovenia by taking a taxi to and from the small town of Sezana. Clearly, in doing so, we won’t be doing Slovenia justice. But, at the same time, this wasn’t our original plan, and I fully expect we will return. At present, […]