We finished dinner and headed back toward the Powder Towel to meet up with the Nightwatchman of Prague. Our nightwatchman, David, has been doing this tour for 8 years and prior to that he was doing nightwatchman tours in Rothenburg…
I didn’t get much sleep last night so I was a bit out of it but I powered on. After breakfast we headed out toward Petřín park which has a observation tower styled like the Eiffel Tower. The hill has…
We kicked today off with the hotel breakfast. There were too many options on the different buffets available so we just decided to order a la carte. Devin scheduled a tour for today’s event called Prague Behind the Scenes. We…
A big thanks to the Wayne family for getting us to the Minneapolis airport! Normally we start our trips out of our home city of Nashville but we tied this one in with a holiday visit to family in Wisconsin.…
Devin has always wanted to go to a Christmas market in Europe and when she came to me with a surprise trip idea I wasn’t surprised about the destination. The spontaneity did surprise me. Neither of us have been to…
When we were researching our trip to Rome we came across a video recommending a dinner party hosted by a Roman open to travelers. Even though you interact with fellow travelers on tour groups and pass them in the streets…
Is there not a building in Rome that the Catholics haven’t turned into a church? On our last full day in Rome we visited the Pantheon. The front of the Pantheon, called a portico, has been copied relentlessly in the…
**Disclaimer** This post is not intended to be a thorough guide on accommodations/transit of Rome. Its more of what we did, how we did it, and our observations of how things function. Transportation We did not fly into the Rome…
Today Devin and Linda went to Orvieto and I took the high speed rail line north to Bologna. These trips were not planned in advanced as we had left a free day in the schedule to either explore more of…
The Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the great works of Michelangelo and a true sight to behold. If only it wasn’t at the Vatican. Tour time We did another tour with the Roman Guy so that we could get…