Europe Travel Journal

This category holds all of the posts on my visits to Europe. Country subcategories within the Europe category contain posts from each country I visited in Europe. And municipal subcategories within each European country category contain posts on each city and town I visited within those countries.

I take some liberty on my definitions of cities and towns. For example, if I take a day trip outside of a municipality I usually include the post on that in the subcategory for the city or town where I started and ended the day.

All of my friends and family are in North America. But I don’t write about visits to them. But I do visit Europe a lot, and I write about those trips. So, this category will likely always have more entries than the other continent categories in this journal.

Matera’s New Town

Due to a late lunch, I didn’t have a lot of time to do stuff this afternoon. I spent it visiting three sights in what...

Sassi Matera

By rights, the title of this post should be either “The Sassi of Matera” or “Matera’s Sassi,” not “Sassi Matera.” Google Translate tells me that...

Lecce to Matera

If you’ve been following along, you might remember from my post about my expedition from Salerno to Lecce that I said I had another hellish...

Last Wander in Lecce

This is my last day in Lecce. I spent this afternoon the way I started my time here. I went for a wander in Lecce....

4 Lecce Churches and a Tower

After lunch today I visited four Lecce churches and a bell tower associated with one of those churches, the Lecce Duomo. Lecce is lousy with...

Salerno to Lecce

Reader warning: Despite not landing anywhere today with much time to explore the locale (although unexpectedly having enough time after my day of travel to...