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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Today is the last full day in Porto. Tomorrow begins two days of travel back to the US — a roundabout way back, but it is what worked with the airlines. I visited the Franciscan complex, now a national museum.…
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Today I explored more of the city around the university, beginning with the Misericordia Foundation, which for many years provided medical and social services to the people of Porto. As the foundation outgrew its humble beginnings an English architect was…
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I spent much of today along or not far from the Douro River that flows through Porto. I walked the Ponte Dom Luis I, an iron bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel. The upper level carries trains, the lower level automobiles;…
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The trip is nearing its end with a few days in Porto, Portugal. Again, we made use of excellent public transport on a direct bus from Pontevedra to Porto. The hotel is on the river in a section of the…
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Perhaps my eyes were just working in a different way, but it seemed there was a lot more street art — or graffiti — in Pontevedra than in other cities I’ve visited on this trip. Some of it fun and…
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Every now and then travel is frustrating. Today was one of those days. I attempted to book seats on the train from Santiago de Compostela to Pontevedra on the Renfe (Spanish railways) app. Each time I got a different error…
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Today was a last day in Santiago, a lovely city. We wandered around window shopping and eating and visited two museums: the very large cathedral museum and a fascinating museum of the Galician people. The distinctiveness of this part of…
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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…