My Trip To Europe. Day 23. Sunday, October 26. Iceland

Dolphins to see me off to home.

Coins of the Day:  Leif Ericson (Leifur Eiriksson) commemoratives.

My Trip To Europe. Day 22. Saturday, October 25. Iceland

And now for something completely different!

Coins of the Day:  Icelandic money

My Trip To Europe. Day 21. Friday, October 24. Ancient Rome.

What’s left of the Glories of Rome

The Coins of the Day:  Hadrian and Trajan

My Trip To Europe. Day 19. Wednesday, October 22. Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A volcano preserves the past.

The Coin of the Day is of Titus.

My Trip To Europe. Day 18. Tuesday, October 21. Florence, then off to Naples.

The Uffizi, one of the greatest art museums in the world.

The Coin of the Day is ancient Neapolitan.

My Trip To Europe. Day 17. Monday, October 20. Florence

The Tube that Changed The World.

The Coin of the Day is the Vitruvian Man.

My Trip To Europe. Day 16. Sunday, October 19. Florence

Today I spent the first full day in Florence, and got educated on Renaissance architecture and the Medicis and (oh yeah, almost forgot) got to see Michaelangelo’s David.

The Coins of the Day are issues of Marcus Aurelius.

My Trip To Europe. Day 15. Saturday, October 18. Off to Florence!

Today I left the island of Sicily and went to the Italian mainland, the city of Florence, the nucleus of the Renaissance.

The Coin of the Day is from Taras.

My Trip To Europe. Day 14. Friday, October 17. Mussomeli

Mussomeli is almost dead-center in the middle of Sicily.  Today I see Mussomeli’s main church and the castle.

The Coins of the Day are from the reign of Antoninus Pius (138-161 CE).

My Trip To Europe. Day 13. Thursday, October 16. To Mussomeli

And now to seek my own past.

The Coin of the Day is actually two of them, Sestertii of both Caligula and Claudius.