Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

Today, we spent most of the day in the Belém district of Lisbon. It’s well outside of Lisbon’s downtown, but the district offers a couple...

Today’s adventure in Lisbon wasn’t in Lisbon. That is to say, it started and ended in Lisbon, but we spent most of the day in...

Built in the 11th century, the Sāo Jorge Castle sits on top of a hill in Lisbon. We walked there this morning. That is to...

I landed in Lisbon (aka Lisboa) today. Well, the flight and landing weren’t exactly all up to me. A plane and its crew were a...

In my previous post, I told you how crowded Città Alta was yesterday, Sunday, and I expressed a hope that it would be less crowded...

Despite not being politically or administratively accurate, tourists should think of Bergamo as two cities. The lower part of the city is newer, although portions...

My sister and I arrived in Milan early yesterday afternoon. My brother-in-law arrived a little later. We went out to dinner in the evening. This...

Yesterday, after a less-than-wonderful pizza lunch with my sister, I set out on my own to walk again to Santa Margherita Ligure, with a brief...

Yesterday, my sister and I took a train to the seaside town of Sestri Levante. The neighbourhood near the train station rates as, at best,...

Yesterday, we rode a spectacular cablecar to Montallegro, at the top of a hill behind Rapallo. By cablecar, I mean the things that have gondolas...