At first we hadn’t planned to visit Cairo. The government is building a brand-new museum to host Egypt’s treasures: the “Grand Egyptian Museum,” set to open in 2018. Or 2019. Or early 2020. Or late 2020. Or 2021. Maybe. Locals explained that its being built on Egyptian Time, which is somewhat more vague and flexible […]
From Rome we headed south by train to Sorrento, a small tourist town that is also a jumping-off point for the Amalfi Coast and the island of Capri. Since it’s effectively closed for the winter we skipped Capri, but we did make it to the Amalfi Coast. More on that later. The train journey from […]
We spent most of a day in the world’s smallest country, Vatican City. It’s home of the Pope, St. Peter’s, and the world’s shortest national railway (all 980 feet of it). We started at the Vatican Museums, which house an incredible, expansive art collection. Despite it being low season in Rome, the museums were quite […]
Our next stop was Rome. To get there from our Venice apartment we first took the vaporetto (waterbus) to the train station. We left at rush hour, and the vaporettos coming down the canal were jammed full of commuters. We had what amounts to a reverse commute, and weren’t so cramped. The train from Venice […]
One summer in high school I took a whirlwind tour of Europe as part of a concert band. We stopped in various cities for a day or so each to give concerts and do a bit of sightseeing. Many of the memories have blurred and faded, but I do recall our day in Venice. It […]
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