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.
A week of leisure and hiking on the island of La Gomera. Arriving and leaving with a ferry from Tenerife and staying in a rural house in the beautiful village of Alojera on the forgotten western coast of the island.
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.
The spring in Leukerbad, a famous thermal baths site, known since ancient times. The weather as in April, from summer to winter and back. Easter 2017.
Disappearing for the Christmas time, Lanzarote first, then moving to Fuerteventura. December 2016.
A short trip to Malta and Gozo, very intensive three days in June 2016.
A week in the Holy Land, with the highlight of Jerusalem, a holy place for all three Abrahamitic religions. March 2016.
Enjoying the Christmas week on La Palma, re-visited after a break of twenty years. December 2015.
The windy town of Essaouira on Morocco’s Atlantic coasts just opposite the Canary Islands, but how different. February 2015.
Visiting the second-largest of the Canary Islands, just for a few walks and sightseeing. December 2014.
Spending the Easter week with friends in Italian-Slovenian borderlands, Julian Alps and their southern foothills of Valli del Natisone. Easter 2014.