Venice was hot, humid, and crowded, but absolutely worth a long day trip from Ljubljana to see and experience. I may have paid $8 for a Coke Zero in a decent Italian restaurant and nearly been trampled in the narrow streets of the city a time or two, but once you look past the huge tourist industry in the city, it’s still a...
After the modern bustle of Paris, the charms of Rome were an entirely different experience. What I loved most about Rome was the feeling of being in 44 BCE, 1500 CE, 1950 CE, and 2015 CE simultaneously. In the course of one block, you could see a fragment of an ancient column, a church constructed in the Middle Ages, and the most absurd...