Pearl of the Danube

The elegant pearl is a mythical symbol of wisdom gained from experience – an apt description for Budapest.

Best of Buda of Budapest

High in the verdant hills of Buda, Buda Castle gazes across the Danube toward the plains of Pest.

In 1873 Pest, Buda + Obuda merged renaming this traumatic and arresting city nestled along the Danube, Budapest.

It is raining again in Rome

And here we sit drafting this poem

For sites yet to see, it’s wet we will be …

Natale di Roma is the birthday celebration of the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC.

We are in the world’s smallest country, the world’s largest church and the superpower of the Catholic Church.

We are Olympians!! Well … at least we are staying in the former 1960 Summer Olympic Village in Rome.