Vienna to Rome by way of Zagreb
Welcome! This website began in 2016 with a nine week journey from Vienna to Rome, hence the name of the website. The self-directed leisurely itinerary wandered through eight countries. Stops along the way included well known cities and many less well known but enchanting places such as Pécs, Zagreb, Lakes Bled and Bohinj, the Istrian peninsula, Mostar, Kotor, Bari, Ravenna. It was a travel dream come to life.
Over the years I added other trips to the website — Romania, Norway, England, several trips to Italy, Malta, Bolivia, as well as travels in the US and photos closer to home in Hartford. This year, however, troubles arose. Photos migrated aimlessly across the website: images from Bolivia appeared on pages dedicated to Romania, photos from Malta on a page on Lincoln Cathedral. The mess was too daunting to right. The best solution was to start over.
Travels are organized by year. Click on the year below my photo (below) or one of the categories below that and select a destination, or scroll down for posts arranged from most recent; click the date on the post to view images. In time I hope to restore some of the lost pages of the earlier website. Enjoy what is here and may these travels inspire travels for you.
Joseph Pace
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The monasteries in Meteora date to the 14th century, but there are records of monastic foundations in the 10th century here. Monks and nuns chose to locate their monasteries and convents atop the region’s unusual rock formations left when a…
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We spent the night in the village of Delphi at a hotel hanging over an enormous gorge emptying into the Gulf of Corinth. Delphi, Greece’s most sacred ancient site, was known as the navel of the earth. Worship here was…
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Our driver and guide Theodore picked us up at Piraeus after we disembarked from the ship and we literally drove into the mountains. Just now I am in the shadow of Mount Parnassus, home of the gods. Tomorrow we will…
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About 45 minutes from Poros, at the end of a beautiful coastal and mountain drive, is the ancient city of Epidaurus, home of another ancient hospital and one of Greece’s most beautiful theaters.
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One of the ancient cities in Türkiye I missed on earlier travels was Pergamon. The treasures of Pergamon are in museums elsewhere in Türkiye and most notably in Berlin. The Pergamon Acropolis was home to several palaces and temples and…
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A few random scenes from the islands. Skiathos was my favorite, I think. Downloading photos everything got scrambled hopelessly out of order, but here is a sampling.
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Well, we now are on land after a week in the northern Aegean. We sailed from the port of Athens, Piraeus, to Dikili in Türkiye to visit Pergamon, and then to Limnos, Skiathos, Skopelos, and Poros before returning to Piraeus.…
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About to board ship for a week at sea. In this last half day in Athens we made our way to the ancient agora, or marketplace, below the Acropolis and the Aeropagus Hill where Saint Paul preached to the Athenians…
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Much of today was spent in the National Archaeological Museum, an extraordinary collection of ancient art. I was amazed with the exceptional life-like power of sculpture from the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. The funeral stelae in which the recently…
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A busy day today. We walked to Syndagma (Parliament) Square and saw the guards known as the Evzones with the big pompoms on their feet, and then through the botanical garden to the ruins of the Arch of Hadrian and…