Travel Tales amongst my Ramblings
True stories of our world-wide journeys interspersed with bits of my real life journey, retired now in Silicon Valley
A visit to Corfu Town on the Greek island of the same name is not complete without a tour of Sisi's Palace, now the Museum Achilleion, lovely inside and out, built as a vacation home by the beautiful and popular-at-the-time Princess Elisabeth of Austria (nickname Sisi), wife of Franz Joseph of the Hapsburgs. Wikipedia about the palace. … Continue reading Corfu Town
Home from Greece, jet-lagged, I move like a robot. I empty my suitcase, filling the laundry basket. From a corner of my luggage, I pull out a small plastic bag that I had stuck there and then forgotten. Stones: a pure white one, a couple striated with the gray-blue of a cloudy sky, and another, … Continue reading Stones
I really didn’t know the water could be that blue, take-my-breath-away-beautiful blue. On board the small boat, the handsome Greek captain stood at one end of the sitting/dining room and finished his safety briefing. Then his voice took on a nervous quality; he had something to tell his 46 passengers that he seemed afraid to … Continue reading Water So Blue––Greece, Sept. 2014
Travel Tales amongst my Ramblings 