A very pleasant and relaxing day, visiting with Sandro Silvestri, a college friend from my Chicago days, and his family. Diane sitting...

We left sunny Andria behind, visiting its famous Castel Del Monte, a castle built in the year 1140, and still in superb condition. While...

When I was a kid, I was amazed at anything that seemed a bit exotic. Hence my love for travel to places off the beaten path. While it may...

I promised to tell you about Matera, one of the lesser known jewels of Southern Italy. It is a place that will definitely leave you...

This morning we said goodbye to Sicily. It’s been a very pleasant week, one that has gone by too fast. Last night outside our place, at...

Hello friends, today we are taking you along to the UNESCO cities of Noto and Siracusa. They are beautiful places with their unique...

Longer daytrip than usual today. We first traveled to the center of the island, to the town of Enna, one of Sicily’s nine provincial...

Mt. Etna One of the most iconic places in the whole of Sicily, Taormina does not disappoint. Set (surprisingly) high on a hill...

Oh, it felt good to wake up in Italy this morning, to a deliciously crumbly glazed croissant and Cappuccino. Our flight from Tel Aviv...

Yesterday was quite the long day. Our journey took us once again to the north of Israel, however in a more easterly direction. Our first...

Today we ventured, along the Mediterranean coast, up to Israel’s northernmost point along the sea, Rosh Hanikra. Before getting there,...

We are now in Tel Aviv, Israel’s second largest city. It’s considerably different, in spite of the proximity to Jerusalem. Not as...

Another rainy, cold day in Jerusalem, but not as cold and certainly not as windy as yesterday. Not great weather for sightseeing, but we...

En Avdat National Park Yesterday we said goodbye to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, as we traveled across the Jordan River into the...

Today we drove back north. The day was the coldest yet of our entire journey, and the wind was blowing hard. It felt like we were back in...

…and we both said ‘WOW!’. Petra's Treasury. A sight to behold. A fun drive today from Aqaba to Petra. We took a country road that winded...

The Red Sea! Et pluribus unum. We might have left Wadi Rum behind, but not the desert, which accompanied us all the way to the sea. Aqaba...

Everybody is so incredibly nice in Wadi Rum. We spent the entire day in this amazing valley, exploring it by jeep, over a six hour span,...

What do these three movies have in common? Lawrence of Arabia, Star Wars, The Martian. They were all filmed in Wadi Rum, Jordan, which is...

New country, new continent; while still in the Middle East, we are however no longer in Africa. Welcome to Asia. The Jordanian flag King...