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
-
Not many pictures today, although I have been busy. We started off to visit one of the larger churches, San Giacomo Maggiore. The church was a forest of scaffolding, but the Bentovoglio chapel was open and newly restored with its…
-
A perfectly beautiful day which included a visit to Santo Stefano, a complex of six or seven churches at one end of Piazza Santo Stefano, a triangular piazza and one of the most beautiful in the city; the old university…
-
Getting here required two planes, a bus and one train, all on time, but it was a long day. This afternoon I met a friend from Nashville at the train station, or tried to: as it turns out, there is…
-
The Delaware River passes through a gorge/valley near the intersection of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Here the Delaware is broad and shallow, greatly loved by kayakers and floaters. I spent a few days in this area with friends…
-
Hartford celebrated the Fourth on July 5th (Saturday). The day was hot and humid, but after sunset the air cooled and the temperature fell. Bushnell Park was filled with a large crowd; food trucks lined Elm Street. I had dinner…
-
A miscellany of photos from this spring: Penwood State Forest, where I hike many mornings; a shot or two from a spring trip to New York City; a visit to Cape Cod (Woods Hole and Hyannis); my old parish of…
-
A few days in May in New York followed by some time on Cape Cod. in New York there were the usual visits to The Met (the Sargent exhibition), The Morgan library, and the reopening of The Frick Collection. At…
-
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.…
-
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…
-
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;…