Vienna to Rome by way of Zagreb
Welcome! This website began in 2016 with a nine week journey from Vienna to Rome, hence the name of the website. The self-directed leisurely itinerary wandered through eight countries. Stops along the way included well known cities and many less well known but enchanting places such as Pécs, Zagreb, Lakes Bled and Bohinj, the Istrian peninsula, Mostar, Kotor, Bari, Ravenna. It was a travel dream come to life.
Over the years I added other trips to the website — Romania, Norway, England, several trips to Italy, Malta, Bolivia, as well as travels in the US and photos closer to home in Hartford. This year, however, troubles arose. Photos migrated aimlessly across the website: images from Bolivia appeared on pages dedicated to Romania, photos from Malta on a page on Lincoln Cathedral. The mess was too daunting to right. The best solution was to start over.
Travels are organized by year. Click on the year below my photo (below) or one of the categories below that and select a destination, or scroll down for posts arranged from most recent; click the date on the post to view images. In time I hope to restore some of the lost pages of the earlier website. Enjoy what is here and may these travels inspire travels for you.
Joseph Pace
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I arrived at noon in Santiago de Compostela and had a dramatic first view of the cathedral a hundred feet from the hotel. (I feel the need to make a plug for the excellent public transportation in Spain. Getting around…
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Another beautiful day in Lugo for wandering around. Spring flowers are beginning to bloom, even in the walls of buildings. After a morning in the town museum, which included a collection of sundials, we rook a hike out of the…
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Lugo is in Galicia and the language is slightly different than Spanish, but not radically different, as Basque is from Spanish. Traveling through Basque Country, Castillia and Leon, and now Galicia I am getting a glimpse of the variety that…
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Somehow the fonts changed on these posts and I cannot recapture the one I preferred….today was bright and sunny and the spring chill has almost vanished. We started the day at one of Antonio Gaudi’s first projects, Casa Botines, a…
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Travel schedules meant a late departure from Burgos, but on a fast train — speed topped out at 249 km an hour! We arrived late in the afternoon in Leon and have found it to be a college party town…
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I may not be walking the Camino to Santiago — Burgos is one of the stops on the Camino and a pilgrim hostel is around the corner from our hotel — but I have made two mini-pilgrimages in the past…
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It is easy to overdose on religious art in Burgos as there is so very much of it. Visiting only the cathedral today would have provided a lifetime’s worth of images to ponder. In addition to the cathedral I visited…
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Arrived today in Burgos. So far getting around by public transport has been a breeze and inexpensive — it is such a great relief not worrying about a car. Burgos’s cathedral (third largest in Spain after Sevilla and Toledo) dates…
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A lovely day exploring Bilbao beyond the Guggenheim. The oldest part of the city — Casco — was a delightful place to wander with the cathedral, a few other notable churches, narrow streets lined with colorful houses, and a truly…
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Rain. Lots of rain. The long streak of good weather ended today with heavy rains. Between San Sebastián and Bilbao I saw almost nothing of the countryside because the rain was so heavy. Whereas San Sebastian was small, quiet and…