European Travel Diaries

37 Days Across Europe · Days 16–19 of 37 · Rome, Italy Six days in Rome. Three guided day tours. One Pompeii. One Sorrento. One Colosseum. And the quiet, accumulating realisation that Rome is a city you cannot finish, not in a week, not in a month, possibly not in a lifetime. Rome from the rooftops. Terracotta tiles, rooftop gardens, domes stacked behind domes. St Peter's visible in the middle distance. The orange pennant cuts through the grey sky. This is the Rome that exist

37 Days Across Europe · Day 14 of 37 · Rome, Italy A city where you turn a corner and find two thousand years of history stacked on top of each other — and the Spanish Steps are somehow still full of people checking their phones. Rome, from the rooftops. The view from the upper levels of the city's centre — terracotta tiles, rooftop gardens, scaffolding, domes. Michelangelo's St Peter's visible in the distance. The Rome that exists above street level is a different city

Day 3: When Monday Becomes a Four-Country Accidental Adventure Zurich → Rapperswil → Heididorf → Liechtenstein 37 Days Across Europe | A 55+ Bucket List Journey 📍 Start: Zurich, Switzerland | Day 3 of 37 Zurich on a quiet Monday morning — still, beautiful, and ready to send us somewhere new. There's a particular kind of Monday that doesn't feel like a Monday at all. The kind where you wake up, look out the window at a European city you've dreamed about visiting, and think ri