Today was our Context Tour to see the Cubist and Art Deco Architecture of Prague. I figured that I was over my jet lag, but slept for 10 hours, awakening at 10:30. That pretty much blew our plan to go … Continue reading →
OK, food porn lovers. Today is your day. We met our food tour, A Taste of Prague, just across the street from the St. Hastalska Church. The English translation of Hastalska is Castullus. Must be a local saint, certainly not … Continue reading →
After a good night’s sleep, we got up this morning and ate the pastries I had bought yesterday. We lazed around the apartment for a couple hours and then went out to meet our tour guide and fellow travelers to … Continue reading →
Saturday we had the alarm set for 4:30 AM so that we could get to the airport for an 8:30 flight. DiDi woke me up at 2:20 so I let her out and noticed that there was a message on … Continue reading →
Fortunately, we had the use of the hotel room until 6 PM before leaving for the airport and our 10:50 PM flight home. It was a very rainy day, so we just lazed around all day, eating at the hotel. … Continue reading →
Today was our culinary backstreets tour and neither of us was willing to miss it despite our colds. We took a cab to the bar I had found on Monday for our 1:30 meeting with Juarez Becoza, our guide. Juarez … Continue reading →
We did nothing. Hung out at the hotel and rested. Dinner at the Italian Restaurant at the hotel. As usual, we ordered too much food and left a lot of it. … Continue reading →
BJ was down with a cold, so Alan took the hotel shuttle to Copacabana beach along with several others from our trip who were staying an extra day. Many of the group were departing today. The shuttle dropped us off … Continue reading →
Another buffet for breakfast, and then a bus tour of Rio with multiple stops. First, we drove around the southern part of the city, passing the headquarters and soccer field for Flamengo, one of the biggest teams in Rio. Then … Continue reading →
We had a somewhat later wake-up call so that we could get breakfast and still get to the trail to the Brazilian side of the falls before the park opened at 9:30. The trail was mostly a gentle downslope with … Continue reading →
