Our First European Trip

This was written from my journal and photos we took during our European Tour in September of 2000. 

Making a pass at Innsbrook, Austria

We are on our way to Austria, Innsbrook to be exact. We went through mountain pass heading  towards Liechtenstein. We went through a pass near the top of Innsbrook pass in the Swiss Alps where

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Venice: Unmasked

This morning, we left a Austria for Venice Italy. We stopped below the Dolomites and had to hot Cocoa’s for a mere 7000 lira. Note, one US dollar was approximately 2100 Lira at the time

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Venice to Florence: Worlds apart

We are off to a very early morning. After we loaded back on the bus, we went back to Venice. Today was St Marks Square and Cathedral. Here we were told that if a pigeon

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All Roads lead to Rome

All roads lead to Rome! We spent the first half of the day in Florence. Laszlo lead our group into the museum where we saw the famous David sculpture. There were others cultures from Michelangelo

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Rome: Capital of the World

Rome! Capital of the world. We were up early to take a Vatican tour. The line for this was very long when we got there and got even longer as we waited. The art collections

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Olympia, Greece

We got to sleep in today since would not get to port until 1 PM Greece time. It is a beautiful day, a little hazy but nice. The waters of the Mediterranean are so blue.

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