Arctic Fever – Day 4 – Foxy Brown
July 3, 2022 By now, I settled in to the routine. In between looking out for wildlife and stuffing our faces, we sat through presentations of nature related photograph analysis, […]
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Arctic Fever – Day 3 – Polar. what? No!
July 2, 2022 Somewhere up on the Northwest corner was Indre Norskoya. Gloomy skies and intermittent rain reflected what went down here 400 years ago. Political and commercial chaos threatened […]
Arctic Fever – Days 1 & 2
Day 1: June 30, 2022 – Longyearbyen After a 3 hour flight from Oslo, we made it to Longyearbyen and boarded the Polar Expedition Ship a couple of minutes away […]
Lake Balaton – Hungary
When in Budapest…stay in Budapest. After an awesome week in Budapest, we took the train down to Balatonfured for some old style revolutionary R&R, pun intended. As we pulled out […]
Boo-dapest, Hungary
I wanted to go with the flow. This break wasn’t about ticking the must-dos, compiling a list of art galleries, seeing an opera, or cooking up a food wish list. […]
Real Attraction – Seville
After an hour and a half flight from Barcelona, we landed in the afternoon and checked into our hotel, H10 Corregidor Boutique Hotel, situated in La Alameda district. The hotel […]
Barcelona
My friend and me planned this trip on the fly, bound to take it easy and relish the Mediterranean’s cool autumn weather. It was unusual for me not to carry […]
Under a Spell- Sicily
There is something about Sicily that I find so inviting. Under the radar of the average tourist, I spent hours and hours organizing road/train trips around Sicily that never worked […]
Frozen in Rila – Bulgaria
From Plovdiv we headed to Rila Monastery, 300kms away. Although Sofia was much closer (150km away), we decided to spend more time on the road and visit Rila. During our […]
A season without roses – Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Shipka Pass, 1300 meters up in the Bulgarian mountains, was covered in snow, which meant one of two things; either risk our necks for a crash course in history that […]
