>I wonder how they are able to tell the difference and find it out, though... I think those concerned with enforcement are pretty good at identifying fakes (genuine items usually have anti-counterfeit ...

Sunday morning we began the day with breakfast on the terrace at Locanda del Papa. They seemed to have an endlessly supply of croissants and preserves and for the hundredth time I cursed my metabolism ...

We finally managed a sleep-in this morning but we were still up and at breakfast by 8am. Afterwards we headed up to the Plazz de Armas again. It's only three blocks from our hotel, about 600 metres ...

We were heading to Puebla, the largest city in the state of Puebla. After some slow traffic in Mexico City, we were soon in green countryside. The Sierra Madre mountains looked beautiful in the ...

Dayton isn't on a direct line between Columbus and Cincinnati but it is a good-sized city and I'd heard of it so I wanted to stop long enough to see what it was all about. I had penciled in the ...

The next day we enjoyed two quite different activities. First a vist to the Anthropology Musem, and then a fun ride on gondola type boat in an ancient canal system. I felt our visit to the National ...

After the final Saturday market around Parma we didn't have any stops to make before Cinque Terre. We took the E33 highway most of the way and then a series of smaller roads to our agriturismo. The ...

This was my last full day in NYC. To be honest, I now wish I were leaving tomorrow PM rather than in the AM as it's the New York marathon and I would love to have watched a little of action from the ...

The option to password protect blogs was made supporter-only a couple of years ago. You almost certainly password-protected your blog before then. Unfortunately there ...

After visiting the Saxon Gardens, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Piłsudski Square, our group reached Krakowskie Przedmieście, the street, where, according to our city guide, it is easy to have ...

While we believe that the Nazis were ruthless fanatics led by a fascist dictator, it is a sad fact that there are despots and their acolytes around the world today who think Hitler was a hero and who ...

Here I was thinking I had finished tormenting myself and anyone else who has been following our journey but realised that I would have to complete some comments being back in Budapest considering the ...