7 Lakes hike, Rila Mts
Town and country around Bulgaria
Glacial flow, Rila Mts We drove a leisurely loop around much of Bulgaria, which is roughly 500 km by 350 km (320 by 220 mi), and found so much enjoyable both in town and countryside.…
Sofia atop her city
Sofia’s Charming Tapestry
Grand boulevards, leafy parks of all sizes, pedestrian streets lined with bars and restaurants, majestic turn-of-the-century buildings, cafes and narrow streets...Sofia, like all sizable European cities, offers these impressive and delightful resources - for its…
Bulgarian revival houses, old town Plovdiv
Plovdiv: lots of old, lots of new
In brief: The layers of history that emerge in Plovdiv provide a multi-faceted charm we couldn't resist. Bulgaria's second city Plovdiv - set on seven hills, 150 kilometers east of Sofia - has been called…
Summer palace, 17th c. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich
Cold comfort at the summer palace
Sometimes the least traveled places can be the most interesting, even in tough conditions. On a dark, bitterly cold day, we went to Kolomenskoye Park at the outskirts of Moscow because of the ravine. The…
About 1km of aqueduct high over Alcantara valley
Going with the flow
View of old Lisbon from Sao Vicente We had seen quite a lot of Lisbon and its surrounding towns when we first visited in the fall of 2017. This time we kept quite busy with…
Pedestrian mall near Tverskaya Street
Observation post: Moscow
Waiting in Moscow for a few days before beginning a rail trip across Siberia, we were pleasantly surprised to see the old city in such fine shape. We had not been here for 25 years…
Ironworks at Museum of Architecture & Design
Iron, water, blood in Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg began in 1723 with a dam made of Ural larch, one never replaced till this day. It was a planned city, named in honor of Queen Catherine I, and organized as a factory town…
Our Trans-siberian cabin
Along the Trans-Siberian
In brief: The Trans-Siberian railway offers little drama, but takes you into a special world. Our Trans-siberian cabin Our home for four days and nights, crossing Russia from Moscow into snowy Siberia, was a very…
Comares meeting room
Granada a la carte
Except for one day during our visit in Spring 2018, Granada was as sodden and chilly as the rest of western Europe. Yet, on this first trip together to the south of Spain, we were…
Porto, from atop Torre dos Clerigos
High over Portugal
In brief: We were thoroughly smitten with Portugal and its two major cities on our first visit ever. Here is what we saw and what we observed. How could we have missed out on Portugal…
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