Volga River Cruise – Moscow to St. Petersburg
After five nights and the better part of six days in Moscow, we took a tour of Moscow subway stations on our way to board our home for the next six days, the Volga...
After five nights and the better part of six days in Moscow, we took a tour of Moscow subway stations on our way to board our home for the next six days, the Volga...
While in Moscow we (ok maybe just me, but Audrey humored me) wanted to visit the Cosmonaut museum. The Cosmonaut museum is very recognizable from quite a distance with its tall swooping tower with...
Novodevichy Cemetery was the second most prominent place to be buried during the Soviet era, the first being the Kremlin Necropolis. It was opened in 1898 adjacent to the Novodevichy Convent off the Third...
On the 4th of July, 2019, we joined the line to go into Lenin’s Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow. The line was long but moved along at a good pace. The area one can...
On our recent trip to Moscow we stayed within walking distance of Red Square. We visited multiple times during our five days in Moscow, including a visit to Lenin’s Mausoleum (separate article here), a...
Teotihuacán is a massive archeological site 25 miles northeast of Mexico City. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. By many estimates, it was the largest urban center in Mesoamerica near...
It was a long bus ride from Dublin through Belfast and up to the Giant’s Causeway at the very north end of Northern Ireland. The drive takes three hours, slightly longer in a bus...
Long ago, most of the area around what is now Mexico City was a lake called Lake Texcoco. The people who lived in Xochimilco started planting a certain type of tree in four corners,...
During the part of our 30th anniversary tour that included Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland, we searched many pubs for the best fish and chips and freshly poured Guinness (and other Irish beers)....
Our 30-year anniversary trip included a bus trip to Northern Ireland. The bus tour from Dublin to the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland wasn’t billed to be a Northern Ireland Game of Thrones tour....