Category Archives: Travel

You’ve decided where you want to go – now is the fun part: planning where to sleep, what to look at and how to stuff your face. Hopefully, these Essential Bits will lead you to the unmissable bits to any place you venture for the first time or the twentieth.

Firenze shopping, plus a little eating and sightseeing

Florence was my home many moons ago, but it will always seem like a second [...]

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Naples Walking Tour

My oh my…when you land in Naples at night, you are taken for a ride [...]

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Five Things to do in Luang Prabang

After a day and a half spent in Bangkok Airport trying to get to Laos [...]

A Girl’s Weekend in Antwerp

Was planning to go to Paris for the sales, but was diverted to Antwerp instead.  [...]

Things to do in Reggio Calabria

As far as everyone I talked to was concerned, there were only two reasons to [...]

The Best Gelato in Milan

Had a quick jaunt to Milan and discovered an area I had never been before.  [...]