Wet and wild, a peat bog is a landscape that literally does not want to let go of you. In late August, we walked and canoed about 10 - 15 kilometers through Kuresoo, at about…
For a traveler, there is never enough time. Sure, you can see "the highlights" of a city in a few days, of a country in a week or so. But, in most places, the longer…
For kilometer after kilometer, the landscape always seems the same. Pine trees and lakes. Lakes and pine trees. Driving the eastern side of the country - Lakeland in the south, Lapland above the Arctic Circle…
To turn a phrase, tourist money corrupts; overwhelming tourist interest corrupts overwhelmingly. In some environments, like the rain forests of Borneo, that turns a safari into a show. In the wild, orangutans are very difficult…
In the midst of a long day trip west of Riga, we chanced on an unusual museum, a testament to someone’s obsession for a subject – in this case, the enchantment of road building. Our…
In part 1, we discover why the Curonian Spit along the Baltic Sea is so unusual and engaging (click here to read it). In this part, we polish up our know-how about amber, the Baltic…
Heading from Vilnius to Riga, we diverted a bit to visit the renowned Hill of Crosses (Kryžių kalnas) near Siauliai, Lithuania. It’s really just two coupled mounds beside a country road in the middle of…
In this part, we discover why the Curonian Spit along the Baltic Sea is so unusual and engaging. In part 2, we polish up our know-how about amber, the Baltic gold - finding the good,…
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey…but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.” - Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking Incongruously, in a place known…
Eastern Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration, Lviv We were hesitant about visiting Ukraine in the fall of 2015. Wasn’t there a war going on? Why would Czech car rental shops not cover travel there? How…