I don’t have a bucket list, but love travel


Do you have a bucket list? I love to travel but I don’t have a bucket list, nor a list of places that I have a strong desire to visit, I just enjoy going most anyplace. Thankfully Tricia does have a lot of places she would like to go, so for me that is perfect…

Dubrovnik still charming us


Dubrovnik continues to charm us. What was once a quiet, off the radar, destination, or so fellow blogger Lynnette of “In the Net! – Pictures and Stories of Life” tells me, is now a busy destination thanks to the filming location of The Game of Thrones. Still we cannot get over the magic of the…

Dubrovnik, should be on your bucket list


We are in Dubrovnik. OK, so let me confess to some things before we go on. In general, when Tricia asks me about places I want to travel to I usually don’t have much input. So it seems that I am lukewarm to her suggestions. The reality is that I don’t have a bucket list…

Milan to Amsterdam to Split, oh my


When we started planning this trip many months ago it was pretty simple – Tuscany/Umbria then Croatia. Like some Bill passing through Congress we added a bunch of addendums along the way. All of our trips start with a two hour train ride to Paris, then an airplane or more trains from there. Since all…

Merging this blog


After a few minutes of deep reflection and analysis I have concluded that it makes sense to merge Been There Eating This in to theTravelsketcher blog. The Travelsketcher travels, eats, and sketches, so why not include all together. So if you follow this blog but not http://www.peninkandpaint.com I hope you will start following it. I…