Portugal 2 – Porto, Part 2

We are now on our own, exploring Portugal. The star trail image above was shot from our apartment window in Porto, as we start to explore this country. Our first impressions of this city were rather negative – based largely upon the very steep hills in our neighborhood.  After a week here though, our impression […]

Portugal 1 – Festival of St John of Porto

We arranged to come to Porto, Portugal in time for the annual street festival paying tribute to St John the Baptist (Festa de São João do Porto). This lively party has been held every year for the past six centuries (starting the afternoon of June 23rd and ending the sometime on the 24th), and is considered the city’s most […]

Armenia 4 – Dilijan

We continued our travels along the Silk Road, an ancient network of trading routes between China and the Mediterranean.  Enroute to our next hotel in Dilijan, we stopped at the Orbeliani Caravansary, a structure where caravans on this Silk Road used to stop for the night.   From the outside (upper left), it is rather unimpressive stone building, so we […]

Random Walk After Two Years, Part 2

Now that we have been in Cuenca for two years, we are going on a Random Walk of thoughts about living here.  Part 1 of this walk was posted yesterday.  We’ll open today with a collection of mosaics on walls around Cuenca, shown above. Perhaps one of the largest changes for us in coming to […]

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