Under cloudy skies and imminent rain we docked midday in Halifax. But the port was right downtown with easy access and I had planned to do an audio walking tour of the boardwalk with an app I discovered called Tripvia Tours, a smartphone audio tour app for walking and driving. Once their free app is…
Continue reading →I don’t need to say exactly how many years ago I was last in Italy, but there were still remnants of scaffolding in Florence then, from the long reconstruction effort after the great flood of that beautiful city. When I arrived this time, at Leonardo Da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport outside of Rome, I was glad to…
Continue reading →It seemed like the thing to do in São Tomé and Principé was to get out of town, since most of the ship’s tours were bird watching, coffee plantations, waterfalls. That’s usually a clue. And justly so, as it is said to be enhanced with a wealth of natural attractions including palm-fringed beaches, emerald rainforests,…
Continue reading →Santa Cruz de la Palma, with its colorful almost Caribbean-like patchwork of buildings and houses set on cobblestone streets, is known simply as “La Palma”. With a population of about 13,000, it is the capital of the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands of Spain. Overlooking the waterfront are the ancient ruins of…
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