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We visited Iceland with our two daughters and son-in-law in June 2021 just after it began to welcome vaccinated Americans and we spent...

When Iceland announced in late spring of 2021 that it would welcome vaccinated Americans, we jumped on the opportunity. Like most...

We try to learn from the mistakes we've made during our travels. Years of traveling around the globe have taught us a lot of valuable...

I can honestly say that our night in the Sahara desert and our hour and a half-long camel trek there through the salmon-colored dunes was...

If we thought that Marrakech was a rabbit warren of alleys through the souk, or market, it was nothing compared to Fez! The second...

Our trip to Morocco was the fortunate brainstorm of two of our children who wanted to go on a family trip with us. We pondered several...

Australia had been on our bucket list for a long time and when our nephew who lives in Sydney announced his wedding date, it was a done...

I’m an unapologetic francophile. I knew from the moment I could choose a foreign language in school that it would be French. I majored...

We knew we wanted to visit either Pompeii or Herculaneum while we were in Naples, but which one? In the end we chose Herculaneum...

Naples has a small but efficient metro system consisting mainly of two lines, 1 and 6 (the yellow and light blue lines, below). In 2006...

Mangia! This command conjures up the image of the quintessential Italian grandmother at Sunday dinner. Italy is renowned for its food...

Are you planning a trip to Italy? Not surprisingly, most people dream of Rome, Florence, Venice and the Tuscan hills and indeed, they're...

Naples is a great jumping-off point for a number of day trips. I wanted to go to the Amalfi Coast and Paul wanted to explore Naples a...

Just 25 miles north of the Sudanese border, the two temples originally built into the sandstone cliffs of Abu Simbel are not only a...

The ancient Egyptians buried their dead on the west bank of the Nile where the sun "dies". Nowhere is this more evident than at the...

The Nubians are an ancient ethnic civilization dating back as early as 7000 BC. They settled along the Nile, generally between Aswan,...

The entire Dendera Temple complex comprises 430,000 sq. ft. and the Temple of Hathor, the main temple of the complex, is one of the best...

Located about 100 miles north of Luxor, Abydos Temple was built around 1500 BC by Ramses II and is dedicated to Osiris, god of the...

Karnak Temple Karnak Temple is actually a city of temples built over a 2,000-year span from roughly 2055 BC to 100 AD although recent...

Monastery of St. Simon The Christian residents of Garbage City (see below) needed a place to worship after a fire destroyed their church....

Also known as Old Cairo, this area grew around the Roman fortress of Babylon built at the time of Augustus after his conquest of Egypt in...

The Nile is the lifeblood of Egypt. It's tied with the Amazon for the distinction of being the longest river in the world. It begins...

This was a "pinch-me" day. Seeing the pyramids in person is like seeing the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower or the Sydney Opera House for...

Egypt has been on our list of countries to visit for a long time. When the "Arab Spring" demonstrations (which the Egyptians call the...