Next time you’re lucky enough to visit Athens, consider a day trip to a few truly remarkable historic sites, Mycenae and Epidaurus. Even if you’re not well-versed in Classical Greek history, there’s enough visual scenery alone to make this visit a worthwhile trip back in time. And as a huge added bonus, cats — […]
Whether you’re shooting cats, buildings or people, shooting photos at night can be particularly challenging. Your smartphone camera is good and there’s no question most photos look great on that bright little screen when you turn the phone around and check out your work. The problem is when you expand that photo to full size […]
*Other than the 5 we live with at home. It’s almost like trying to pick a favorite kid. We’ve met hundreds, if not thousands, of cats over the years as we’ve traveled throughout Europe and we have fond memories of all of them. It’s true we’ve never come across a mean cat in our travels, thank […]
Whether you’re planning your 1st trip to Europe or your 21st, if you do this one simple thing you’re almost guaranteed to have a more positive experience during your next visit, especially if you plan on using different cities as hubs and arranging day trips. Sounds too good to be true, but it’s actually a […]
It took us 30+ years of travel together before we booked a European cruise. We had taken a few Bahamas/Mexico cruises, but those are a different type of vacation, not really about the destination, but more about the shipboard experience. Europe, at least for us, is all about the cities and sites and a cruise […]
Every traveler should have their own list of “Holy crap!” travel moments — moments, whether a first impression or a total experience, that are defined by that special feeling you get inside your gut that’s hard to put into words. We’ve experienced some amazing sensations in our travels and this list in no way diminishes […]
Even though it sometimes seems that cameras are on their way out – forced into antiquity by the outstanding performance of most modern camera smartphones, there are still a lot of good reasons for the every day traveler to bring a solid, dependable point and shoot camera with them on holiday. What price range depends […]
*We are looking forward to editing this post when we visit Istanbul, Turkey this September. What’s the first thing we all think of when planning our next European holiday? Finding cats, right? Ok, well maybe not most people, but it’s certainly one of the main ingredients we use in planning our next trip. So, in […]
Cat Rating – Scale of 1 – 5 Kotor, Montenegro, the “City of Cats”. You would think this would be a slam dunk, all-time favorite for cat worshipers, but we had mixed emotions about our time there. It gets a “5 cat” rating, but definitely with some reservations. It started off beautifully. Our arrival to […]
Cat Rating – Scale of 1 to 5 We love all of Italy – we’ve yet to find a city we wouldn’t enjoy coming back to again and again, and Taormina Italy was no exception. We visited in September on a cruise ship shore excursion, and the weather was absolutely perfect like it usually is […]