Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

This morning saw me take a short trip from Keszthely, Hungary, to nearby Szigliget, specifically to Szigliget Castle. I hate it when day parts spy...

This afternoon in Keszthely, I went to a museum that explores aristocratic travels and adventures, because who wouldn’t? That was the middle activity of my...

My primary destination this morning in Keszthely was Festetics Palace. But I stopped at a church along the way and took in a few museums,...

“Keszthely by the Lake” is not the name of the town I’m in. It’s just Keszthely. But it’s a town by a lake. Lake Balaton,...

If you read my first post from Győr, you might remember that I said that my guidebook mentioned a sight on the outskirts of Győr....

Here’s a hint for deciphering some of the titles I place on these journal entries. If I title one “Ark of the Covenant Statue,” it’s...

I left Sopron this morning, and I’m now in Győr, Hungary. Why Győr, you might ask? That’s a fair question. Like everywhere I’m visiting on...

I gave St. Michael’s Church sole billing in the title of this entry, but this afternoon included a hodgepodge of sights that I visited briefly...

This was going to be a bit of a Jewish Sopron morning. The guidebook I’m using has a long paragraph on Jewish Sopron. It claims...

This afternoon in Sopron, I visited Sopron’s Old Synagogue. The Old Synagogue falls under the umbrella of the Sopron Museum, the main buildings of which...