Hurtigruten, October 2022
The classical Norwegian postal ship route from Bergen up north along the coast and back.
The classical Norwegian postal ship route from Bergen up north along the coast and back.
Before embarking one of the Hurtigruten ships we spent a week in a typically Norwegian house by one of the furthest branches of the Sognefjorden by Marifjøra, making trips around the area.
In the second half of our trip to Iceland in 2020 we went to the majestic Vestfirðir, the Westfjords, where we enjoyed an exceptionally stable fair weather.
We spent three nights in Hellnar on the Snæfellsness peninsula in the western Iceland and made a few trips around: views, waterfalls, beaches, churches, cemeteries, cafés…
After a day in Fjallabak, we drove from the Þjórsá river valley to the Snæfellsnes peninsula via the majestic Kaldidalur route between the huge Langjökull glacier and the Ok mountain (its glacier had already melted…), visiting on the way three fine waterfalls.
At the very beginning of our road trip to Iceland in the strange year of 2020, we have made a short side trip we have always wanted to do since 1990. Landmannalaugar, in the Iceland’s Fjallabak, the land behind the mountains.
A short spontaneous family Christmas trip to Mauritius, the neighbour island to La Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
One of the not-so-clearly-defined aims of our stay in the Ropki valley in the Beskid Niski in Poland was to reach a cluster of old wooden orthodox churches south of the Dukla pass, the lowest one in the main range of the Carpathian mountains, situated in Slovakia, actually.
Two weeks traveling in Iceland in the very middle of the summer season.
A much too short trip to Namibia, limited to the central western part of the country.
A week on the main island of the Azores archipelago, São Miguel, November 2018.
A traditional city trip due to usual and trivial case of our marriage anniversary — but the destination in any aspect trivial, not to mention, usual… New York, New York! March 2018