Category Archives: Travel

A Tale of Two Cities: Saint Petersburg and Moscow

           I have been left standing on the north bank of the Neva River in St. Petersburg helplessly watching my ship leave the dock without me, which makes sense in Russia, since after all I’d only devoted an entire … Continue reading

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Walking Lake Lugano by day, gambling Campeone d’Italia by Night

                 Let me just start by saying this is a beautiful walk.  I won’t call it a hike, in which there is implied a sense of grim purpose that includes the word exercise, which I have difficulty fitting in the same … Continue reading

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Montmartre

  The Sacre’ Coeur is a beautiful basilica, and from the steps in front of it you can see all of Paris laid out before you. 

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