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VIRTUAL – ROCKIN’ MOROCCAN

Morocco has been on our short list for years. A friend from work had lived there for two years during the deployment one of the first satellite telephone systems years ago. He had described it as one of the most fascinating places he’d ever lived. He was originally from Poland and had lived all over the world, so I always saw his interest in the county as intriguing. On a recent trip…

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Alternate Realities

If you’re like us, you had plans for 2020. You watched as those plans changed, day by day and week after week. By May it was clear travel to the distant locations for which we had already purchased tickets in the first few months of the year was not going to happen. Tickets were cashed in, reservations cancelled, and tours called off.                Welcome to the alternative reality science fiction writers have…

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ROME: LUISELLE MODA, HOTEL MOZART AND SOFIA RESTAURANT

At the end of our anniversary trip we arranged a van from Positano Car Service, Via Cristoforo Colombo, 2  84017 Positano (Sa) Italy  www.positanocarservice.com, to transport the six of us from Positano to Rome directly. Our driver was Enrico who provided our last lingering looks at the pastel blue waters, high rocky mountains with homes, restaurants and shops, hanging off at impossible angles, and the rock outcrop where two natural tunnels have…

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CLEMENTINA and the HOUSE OF THE EGG (CASA DELL ‘UOVO)

Our Positano cliffside apartment, Casa Della ‘Uovo or House of the Egg (71 Trara Genovo) has been our base of operations for the many trips we have taken in our five days here, the dinners we have shared in a wide variety of locations and styles and the easy conversations about a wide range of subjects of importance to each and all of us. Clementina is the housekeeper who comes and cleans…

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La Tagliata Positano (Fattoria Tagliata)

We returned to our hotel to clean up before our evening meal which a friend of Karen had recommended, although the friend was unable to eat there. La Tagliata Positano. Via Tagliata 32B, Positano. The restaurant was a long distance from our apartment, so we arranged through the restaurant to be picked up at Hotel Poseidon, which was a five-minute walk. The bus wound its way through the streets of Positano eventually…

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