Suzy Guese

When you spend your birthday traveling after years of doing so at home, it is bound to feel somewhat strange, not really the big day with presents and cake unless you bring all of the bells and whistles with you. While I didn’t get any cake for my birthday, just gelato, I had the hard [...]

I have found my perfect place, where the variety of food is actually existent, where Italian pizzazz meets Austrian order, where people don’t seem to speak English when I speak Italian or even Italian for that matter, where the setting doesn’t tell you exactly where you are. You may have to ask someone. Italy? Germany? [...]

Finally a breeze is blowing through Florence to quiet the intense heat. At any rate, I was able to get through all of the stumbles this week without air conditioning. In case you are new here, each week I ask readers and writers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week in the comment [...]

This week’s “Wish You Were Here” photo comes from Abhijit Gupta of The Corny Traveler’s Chronicles.
Located at a height of about 4350 m (14,270 ft) in the Himalayas of the Ladakh region of India, Pangong Tso is famous for its clear blue waters and is known to change colors according to the time of the [...]

One by one, they line up to pay their respects to an old man. Forming a snaking line, each person has their time to say hello and goodbye. What sounds like a normal funeral is somewhat different today. No one at this funeral knew the man behind the glass case. In fact, no one on [...]

After a trip up to northern Italy, I am back in Florence bringing you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. Just in case you are new here, each week I ask readers and writers to submit their favorite travel post of the week. This can be from your own personal site or another travel post [...]

The town of Otranto rests just before the tip of Italy’s boot heel in the Puglia region. Said to be Italy’s main port to the Orient for nearly 1,000 years, Otranto was fast asleep. Arriving later in the day on an empty stomach, I stumbled upon a restaurant still filled with diners. The owner I [...]