[London, UK, Jan 14, 2024] To make the most of our first few days in London, we purchased the London city pass in advance. We got the 72-hour one and pre-booked as many activities as we could with it. For today, we booked the Shard and a Top Sights 5-hour walking tour. If you’re unfamiliar…
[London, UK, Jan 13, 2023] Quite unexpectedly, I found myself in London after a decade! Ash had a conference there, and of course I had to tag along. We flew non stop PDX to Heathrow. We landed in London just after noon, then took the tube into London City. I finally got to use my…
[Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Sat, Nov 25, 2023] Liech-what now? At 62 square miles, this tongue-twister of a country is the sixth smallest in the world. Sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, it’s entirely within the Alps. The capital Vaduz was so close to Zurich that I couldn’t resist to the temptation to check off 2 countries in…
[Zurich, Switzerland, Nov 24, 2023] All of the museums I wanted to visit today opened at 10 am, so I decided to tackle them in the order from farthest away to closest. That meant I was going to start with Museum Rietberg, about 25 minutes away on foot. I planned to use my walk there…
[Zurich, Switzerland, Thu, Nov 23, 2023] I decided to use the days off around Thanksgiving to do a little stopover on the way back to the US from Bulgaria. I started adding side trips to my Bulgaria trips back in 2014, but the COVID pandemic put a stop to that practice. It was high time…