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Seeing Red: Capturing the Island of Malta in Cardinal & Crimson
When we moved to the Mediterranean island of Malta last autumn, we envisioned our leisure time swiftly being spent exploring the country’s plentiful heritage sites, soaking up the sunshine, and...
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Sinking my Teeth into Subotica, Serbia: A Tale of Art Nouveau & Dental Tourism
Sitting in a dentist’s chair half-way around the world from ‘home’, I was told the disappointing news: I had my first, albeit tiny, cavity. Shawn and I had come to Subotica, Serbia to devour its...
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Green & Tranquil Malta: Tasting Maltese Food & Wine in the Countryside
Close to where Malta’s Victoria Lines fortifications taper off, there’s a little piece of Mediterranean paradise – a plot of land where olive and pomegranate trees, along with chickens, goldfish,...
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Putting Malta in the Limelight: Valletta’s Manoel Theatre
From the outside, Malta’s Manoel Theatre is handsome, but unassuming. Step through its main entrance and into the theater though, and the 285-year-old Valletta structure is dazzling – bringing to mind...
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A Bittersweet Introduction to Malta’s Celebrated Honey and Bees
Our first encounter with Malta’s revered honey was destined to offer a bittersweet lesson. At a Christmas market in the Mediterranean country’s capital city, Valletta, we first met third-generation...
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Into the Blue: A Mediterranean Sailing Trip from Malta to Comino
As the sailing yacht, the Moon Song, gracefully cut through the glittering water of the Mediterranean, I tried to recall some of the peoples who had made the islands of Malta their stopping point the...
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Harvesting Sea Salt on the Maltese Island of Gozo
On the northern coast of the Maltese island of Gozo, mounds of snow-white salt sparkle under the summer sun in salt evaporation pans. About 300 of these pans cover a section of Gozo’s northern coast,...
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Exploring Malta’s Roman Roots at the Domus Romana Museum
Malta was ruled, occupied and colonized by a great number of different peoples throughout the last few thousand years. Not surprisingly, since the island is in the heart of the Mediterranean, the...
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Malta’s Cliff-Diving Dog Captures Hearts Around the World
It was a sweltering September afternoon on the sunny island of Malta when we headed to St. Peter’s Pool. With its dramatic limestone cliffs and access to the Mediterranean, St. Peter’s isn’t a pool in...
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A Guide to Exploring Valletta: Malta’s Tiny, But Mighty, Capital City
Malta’s capital, Valletta, is a grande dame undergoing rapid change. With more than 300 monuments crammed into the city’s small peninsular borders, Valletta has one of the most concentrated historic...
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A Descent into Malta’s Mystical Hypogeum
Believed to be one of the oldest prehistoric underground temples in the world, the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is a mysterious and impressive engineering marvel crafted by Malta’s ‘Temple Builders’. Little...
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Into the Forest: Watching a Wild Deer Feeding in the German Alps
Sitting on the wooden benches of a rustic shelter, our group waited patiently. We shivered quietly and watched for signs of life in the frosted forest before us. It was twilight, and we had come to...
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Sculpting Tomorrow’s Artisans: The Stonemason School in Pučišća, Croatia
Venturing into Pučišća’s Stonemason School feels like entering another era. The soundtrack is the hammering, sanding, and chiseling of stone. A snow-white dust dances in the air, hugging every surface,...
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A Sunset Safari in South Africa’s Addo Elephant National Park
As golden-hour rays of sunshine cast shadows upon South Africa’s Addo Elephant National Park, we remained cautiously optimistic that we’d spot wildlife. Our open-air safari vehicle rolled through the...
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Around the World in 18 Barbers’ Chairs
Sitting in a barber shop in the coastal city of Split, Croatia, I struggled to answer the stylist’s simple question: How long would we be visiting Croatia? I had learned a smattering of Croatian words,...
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Blown Away by Orange, France: An Afternoon Admiring the Roman Theater and...
I’d read about Provence’s unforgiving mistral wind, and now I was battling it in the Ancient Roman theater in Orange, France. The sky was a clear, brilliant blue on this autumn day, but frigid gusts...
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Finding Tranquility in Thailand: Exploring Sukhothai Historical Park
The thermometer flirted with 40°C (104°F) as we wandered from one marvelous temple to another in Thailand’s Sukhothai Historical Park. The scent of frangipani blooms danced in the air, and powdery dirt...
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A Sanctuary for the Lovable and Threatened Donkeys of Split, Croatia
In a pine-shaded park overlooking the sea in Split, Croatia, a fuzzy donkey emerges among a cluster of joggers, dog-walkers, and families. The passersby stop and smile, delighted to encounter such a...
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Montenegro’s Lake Skadar National Park: A Day Trip and Boat Ride
Having emerged from the long mountain tunnel that separates Lake Skadar National Park from Montenegro’s coastline, the landscape was decidedly different. Gone were glimpses of the expansive Adriatic....
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The Windows of Heidelberg, Germany
The German city of Heidelberg is perhaps best known for its romantic castle ruins, its highly esteemed university, and its Old Town, which is studded with mostly baroque architecture. Having lived in...
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