Yes, I read travel guide books, and use them to plan my trips. Eyewitness Travel Guides are my favorite because they have lots of pictures and graphic diagrams. And I do internet searches and read a plethora of travel websites. But not everything worth seeing is in the guide books, or you ...
I read a couple books about the Alhambra to learn it's history prior to visiting so that I could skip the guided tours (and the cost) and do the self-guided option allowing me to focus on photography. If you opt for self-guided, you can go at your own pace and stay in the Alhambra, or gardens, ...
When I first began to travel, riding a city bus was terrifying. How will I know when to get off? My experience with city buses in American cities has been that there are no announcements, or the announcements are not a spoken version of English that I understand. And when traveling in a foreign ...
The last item on my do list to get ready for my trip to Japan, was to buy shoes that I could easily slip on and off my feet. In Japan, you are required to remove your shoes when entering somebody's home, a temple, or a tea house. I really thought that all I needed was the shoes.
The Swiss are mountain goats. My apologies. Their hiking trails are graded by difficulty, and an "easy" Swiss hike is a "hard" American hike. The signposts along the trail, telling you which way to go, are color-coded with the difficulty info so you can presumably make reasonable choices.
Accidental selfie taken at Coleccion de Titeres de Francisco Peralta in Segovia, Spain.
