Perhaps one of the highlights of my trip to Europe last year was the unexpected, albeit very profound visit to La Scala Sancta or The Holy Stairs in Rome. My group had no scheduled tour that afternoon so we had time to go sightseeing around Rome. We ended up at La Scala Sancta, located in […]
A patisserie in the small town of Asissi. I want one of those…
On the Road… day 15, at a gas station, an hour away from Paris “Can I offer you coffee?” A, our Portuguese driver, asks me good-naturedly.It’s been a long day and nobody deserves these much-needed gas station breaks more than him. He’s been driving his bus for a couple of hours now and had to […]
If you plan to walk around these medieval streets for one whole day, make sure to wear proper footwear. I made the grave mistake of wearing ballet flats which had no foot support at all. I couldn’t feel my toes by the end of the day.