On our final day in Italy, we spent the morning touring the COLOSSEUM, the Arch of Titus, and the Arch of Constantine. Afterwards, we had lunch in the Roman Ghetto (Jewish Ghetto of Rome) followed by a tour of the Tempio Maggiore…
Category: Landscape
The day began with a several drive from Florence to Pitigliano where we toured the former Ghetto with classic, old world narrow streets in a town with narrow streets and many hills. This is home to the Museo Ebraico, Sinagoga…
Today we went to Siena in the Tuscany region and saw the Duomo di Siena. Then we traveled to San Gimignano to see the old city and have a wine, olive oil, and balsamic tasting. Siena, Italy Duomo di Siena…
We left Venice this morning and drove to Ferrara where we saw the Estense Castle, the MEIS – National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, the Jewish Ghetto of Ferrara, and took a walking tour through some the old…
On our third day in Venice we traveled to the Island of Murano and toured the Ellegi Murano Glass factory, and then to the island of Burano. Burano After a boat ride back to downtown Venice, we had some free…
Some images from our first day in Italy with Am Shalom of Glencoe. Arriving in Venice where the annual Carnival is about to wrap up. Flying over the Alps and seeing Venice from the air. Ending the day with a…
Dorothy and I spent four wonderful and relaxing days at the Wymara Resort Turks & Caicos. The beaches had some of the softest and whitest sand that we’d ever seen. Each day we took long walks along the ocean, and…
It doesn’t matter where you are, people always claim that if you don’t like the weather … ‘wait a minute.’ This turned out to be true last August when Dorothy accompanied me on an assignment to Albuquerque, New Mexico to…
A couple of weeks ago I had an assignment in Seaside, Oregon which is … of course … on the coast. It’s in the northwest corner of the state about 20 miles from the Washington state line. The drive from…
Dorothy and I had a chance to get away before COVID-19 really took hold in the US. We took a quick, four-day trip to Nassau after winning a heavily discounted stay at the Rosewood Baha Mar. The resort is absolutely…