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Photo du Jour #72: Hello, Sunshine! – Udine, Italy
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo A glimmering sunshine greets passersby from the clock tower of the Loggia di San Giovanni. The graceful, 16th-century structure...
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Photo du Jour #73: A Bejeweled Horse – Angkor Wat, Cambodia
The magic of Angkor Wat and magnificent Cambodian temples like Ta Prohm and Bayon is all in the details: richly-carved female devata and apsara bas-relief figures, a visiting Buddhist monk clad in a...
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Angels, Busts & Saints Dressed in Snow: A Visit to Oberammergau’s Cemetery
Perhaps it is a bit macabre, but I find cemeteries – particularly those in foreign locales – to be fascinating and fitting spots to reflect upon a place’s culture and history, and upon life itself....
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A Vietnamese New Year’s Reminiscence
When I unpacked the wide-eyed, red and gold Vietnamese ox ornament last week, it reminded me why I love travel: serendipitous events, cultural immersion, and the opportunity to mingle with unassuming...
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Fasching Festivities, German Style
For the ten years I called picturesque Heidelberg, Germany home, I was lucky to have a bird’s eye view when Fasching festivities took the university town by storm, as I’m sure they did today....
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A Love Lesson from a Moroccan Wall
The love we give away is the only love we keep. - Elbert Hubbard On a salmon-pink back alleyway in Marrakech, Morocco, I discovered a tribute to love’s enduring and universal nature. Its medium was...
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Getting Acquainted with Trogir, Croatia
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark If there’s anything we’ve learned from mostly living on the road these past 15 months, it’s...
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A Long Weekend in California Wine Country: Getting a Taste for Napa and...
I should like to spend the whole of my life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. — William Hazlitt There seems to exist a syndrome with many avid...
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Flourishes Fit for a Fairy Tale: Admiring the Details in Trogir, Croatia
Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries. – René Descartes How Trogir tempts me with its fanciful flourishes fit for a fairy tale! At almost every turn in the Croatian town’s...
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Photo du Jour #74: Living on the Edge – Trogir, Croatia
When it comes to heights, I’m a bit of an acrophobe. When I went to the Blarney Castle – determined to kiss the famed stone that endows the kisser with the gift of gab – it took a strange Irish man,...
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Trogir’s Cathedral of Saint Lawrence: Radovan’s Magnificent Portal
For the past weeks, much like a diner on a progressive dinner savoring rich, multiple courses, I’ve been enjoying slowly absorbing the details of Trogir’s Cathedral of Saint Lawrence. I first admired...
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The Hunt for the ‘Original Zin’: A Wine Tasting Tour of Croatia
From wine what sudden friendship springs! - John Gay We started the day in the seaside city of Trogir, Croatia on a quest to find Zinfandel’s ancestral home. By the day’s end, we’d not only savored...
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Celebrating International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day, a commemorative day that’s celebrated in different ways throughout the world. In some countries, the focus is on women’s accomplishments, whereas in others, it is a...
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The Blue Skies of Trogir, Croatia
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your...
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Germany’s Sommertagszug Tradition: Greeting Spring & Bidding Farewell to Winter
In parts of Germany three weeks before Easter, it’s customary to celebrate spring’s return with a Sommertagszug or summer procession. Though this year’s round of such fests was held last Sunday, for...
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Photo du Jour #75: The Impish Canines of Trogir, Croatia
During the early morning hours, the streets of Trogir belong to the city’s canine residents. The dogs (known as pas in Croatian) roam the network of narrow streets in the old town, going about their...
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A Long Weekend in California Wine Country: Getting a Taste for Napa and...
Note: This is part two of the series, Long Weekend in California Wine Country. Click the image for part one. Sunday: Papapietro Perry Winery, Trattore Estate Wines, Dry Creek Olive Company, Dry...
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A Walking Tour of Trogir, Croatia
Trogir, Croatia, our current home away from home, has a fascinating history that goes back more than 2,300 years. During our first weeks on this tiny island getaway, we preferred to soak up the town’s...
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Sailing the Adriatic: A Day Trip from Trogir, Croatia
A sailor is an artist, whose medium is the wind. – Webb Chiles As our new friend’s sailboat, Jonathan III, powered itself away from the marina, I watched as the city of Trogir faded off into the...
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Photo du Jour #76: Saint Duje Cathedral & Spring Blooms – Split, Croatia
A branch of blossoms heralds spring’s return in seaside Split – Croatia’s second largest city. In the background is the city’s famous Sveti Duje /Saint Dominus Cathedral. Yesterday, we spent a...
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