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Photos: Black Forest and Mosel Valley

GERMANY | Friday, 1 May 2015 | Photo Gallery

Castles and cottages, hills and rivers
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Photos: Sightings of the Southern Eurasian gnome

ITALY | Sunday, 19 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

See if you can find the Eurasian gnome in these pictures
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Tags: france, gnome, italy, turkey


Photos: German gnome sightings

GERMANY | Sunday, 19 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Gnomes
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Spring in Deutschland

USA | Saturday, 18 Apr 2015 | Views [296]

Sun and spring rain have brought out beautiful green leaves, plums, forsythia, tulips, and daffodils, contrasted against green moss along the streams and on the trees of oak beech and birch. Near small villages in the Kaiserslautern district is part ... Read more >

Tags: eurasian animals, streams


Photos: Old world animals and other interests

USA | Saturday, 18 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Eurasian lynx, bison, deer, and the extinct aurochs reverse engineered from modern wild cattle from Spain and Scotland in wildpark.
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Tags: eurasian animals, springs


Photos: Kaiserslautern

GERMANY | Monday, 13 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Around and near town
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Photos: The Palatinate Forest

GERMANY | Monday, 13 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Second largest forest in Germany
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Photos: Colmar

FRANCE | Thursday, 9 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Cobbled streets of old city and Petit Venise
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Alsace

FRANCE | Thursday, 9 Apr 2015 | Views [388]

Buying the train ticket north through Switzerland to Basel was magnificent past tall snowy peaks and quintessential Swiss farm houses dotting green pastures, and it was easy. Buying a ticket on French rail was another story. First, unknown to the traveler, ... Read more >

Tags: cobbled streets, colmar, gothic, half-timbered


Photos: Lago Maggiore

ITALY | Tuesday, 7 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Italian lakes
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Tags: easter, lago maggiore, pascua, stresa


Stresa from sunny to surfable

ITALY | Tuesday, 7 Apr 2015 | Views [404]

The supposedly quick train ride from Malpensa to Stresa was more eventful than planned, with a bit of missing information from the ticket machine and the agent, leaving us at the wrong station or the wrong train, but remedied by a most helpful Italiana ... Read more >

Tags: alps, gelato, stresa, waves


Culinary and museum tours

TURKEY | Monday, 6 Apr 2015 | Views [446]

The food of Istanbul is as varied as the sites: friendly pastry chefs with piles of sweets on a tray, spices in colorful display, coffee strongly brewed over charcoal on the street, dried fruits by the 100grams, Easter egg displays in the candy shop ... Read more >

Tags: assyrian, coffee, hittite, museum


Photos: The kaleidoscope turns

TURKEY | Monday, 6 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Markets and people
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Photos: Colors of Istanbul

TURKEY | Monday, 6 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery

Ayasofya, bazaar, Topkapi palace and harem, Chora/Kariye church, carpet cooperative
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Miklagard

USA | Wednesday, 1 Apr 2015 | Views [262]

The Great City Miklagard to Vikings, but whether called Miklagard, Byzantium, Constantinople, Stamboul, or Istanbul, the city of 17 million is a mind-numbing kaleidoscope of colors, history, architecture, religion, flowers, products, salesmen, buses, ... Read more >

Tags: bazaar, blue mosque, carpets, chora, colors, hagia sophia, mosaics


Photos: More marvels of Kyoto

USA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery

Castles and temples
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Photos: Hanami

USA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery

Cherry trees begin to bloom on a glorious day
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Hanami

USA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2015 | Views [482]

All the world seems to be arriving to celebrate hana mimas, or blossoms we watch, hanami, speaking every language. the plums have been out most of the week and an occasional early blooming cherry, but today they started to pop, along with sunshine and ... Read more >

Tags: cherry blossoms, hanami, kyoto


Far more than medieval Imperial Japan

JAPAN | Friday, 27 Mar 2015 | Views [481]

Culture shift from Hawaii beyond the mere time zone, we got up at 6 to Kyoto dawn to see the peaks of temples and pagodas out the window. At 7 nothing is open . At 8 the 7-11 ATM and coffee machine is open, and corn dogs and donuts for the starving to ... Read more >

Tags: buddhism, okonomiyaki, shinto, temple, water


Photos: The wonders of Imperial Japan

JAPAN | Friday, 27 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery

Garden, palace
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Tags: garden, imperial, palace


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