Jeff Toff, a local Grass Valley attorney took a hike around Grouse Ridge with his dog Logan a few weeks ago. Logan is an Irish Wolfhound, and when Logan puts his front feet on Jeff, he’s a lot taller than Jeff. Jeff took many pictures while he was there and I’ve combined them into a [...]
Judy and I visited the Dachau Concentration Camp located in Munich, Germany, on June 11, 2010. The following says it well: “During the Holocaust, Germans extinguished the lives of six million Jews and, had Germany not been defeated, would have annihilated millions more. The Holocaust was also the defining feature of German politics and political [...]
I forgot to post this from our travels. Saturday, May 29, and the last whole day in Sorrento, we took the Bus down the Amalfi Coast. First, getting off in Positano, you can see several shots of the area, and walking down into town (very touristy). Next, a view of Amalfi Town, with way to [...]
A place of great beauty, in which a residence was built for the devil reincarnated, Adolf Hitler. Situated upon a mountain top in the Alps, at an elevation of 6,017 feet above sea level, it has breath taking views of the mountains and valleys below. Since then, the idyllic setting and remarkable architecture of the [...]
Arriving by airplane form Catania, Sicily about 9:00 AM, our first hint that this was a different sort of town was when we took a waterbus from the airport instead of a bus or a taxi. There is actually a “water road” marked by large piers on either side, to guide the boats through the [...]
One of the days we took a beautiful cruise to Panarea and Stromboli, with the purpose “to see Stromboli at night.” Stromboli is an active volcano for the last two millennia, spewing sparks and red hot rocks into the air. In the daylight, you can only see puffs of steam but at night it is [...]
After a nice train ride, all the way to Milazzo, the best port to ship to Vulcano for our 7 day stay in Judy’s RCI Resort, booked through Shell Vacations Club, named Bahia Fenicia, closer to Vulcanello (small volcano) than the main Volcano. It was a smooth trip, with door-to-door service from the office in [...]
While in Rome, for some reason I got an asthma attack. I haven’t had an asthma attack since I was a teen ager which was a couple of years ago, more or less. In talking to the receptionist at the place we were staying at, he suggested that I go to the emergency room, since [...]
Taking the Circumvesuviana Train back to Naples, we were determined to see the best art and statues that had been ripped off from Pompeii and Herculaneum. After walking a while we came to Museo Archeologico. When Pompeii was excavated in the early 1800s, Naples’s Bourbon King bellowed “Bring me the best of what you find!” [...]
The waiter at the place we stayed in Rome runs a side business of taking guests on side trips or to their next destination. We decided to use his services instead of taking a train to Sorrento. It was much more convenient, we skipped the hour long train ride to Naples and the train ride [...]
