My objective in this blog post is to share some of my photos from the beautiful country.
Europe
My travel blogs are intended to provide my readers with the vicarious pleasure from my sharing my travel experiences. We spent two tourist days in Rome prior to boarding the Viking cruise ship. Our hotel was located in the Trastevere section of Rome, an older residential area across the Tiber River from the central city,[…]
Ireland had always been on my “bucket list.” So I’m ecstatic to have gotten the opportunity to visit, even without long prior planning. Susan had contacted the founder of the International Virtual Reality in Healthcare Association, who, when he learned about Healing Healthcare Systems, invited Susan to give a keynote address on the history and[…]
Spending only two weeks in Europe is very short when considering all that can be seen and done. Yet my recent two-week European trip was so intensely filled, that the day two weeks ago when we began this trip seems like some time in the distant past. The two weeks in Europe included visits to[…]
At first glance, it might seem that Sweden is an idealized version of California: Sweden has: universal free access to healthcare, free college education, an excellent public transportation system, a high regard for conservation and alternative energy production, a high level of female representation in government and industry, and (last but perhaps not least)[…]
I’m very lucky to be able to travel internationally as much as I do. It’s a privilege once reserved exclusively to kings, military leaders, international merchants, and those individuals rich enough to afford to travel. These days, travel has gotten cheaper in some ways (e.g. airfare, internet booking and phones) though more expensive in others[…]
I had visited Switzerland only once before in 1973, driving my VW van with my parents, when they came to Europe to persuade me to come back to the US after I had stayed out of the country for three years. By that time, the Vietnam War was winding down, and the military draft was[…]
Whenever I travel to “old Europe,” that is, the continent of Europe, I’m reminded that Europeans are much more aware of history than Americans are. They see the old cathedrals, the castles, the city walls, the statues, the artwork…all products of their long history. In Iceland, one is reminded constantly of “geological time.” Geological time[…]