This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 This morning we arrived in Sète, known as the Venice of Languedoc, France. It was founded by Louis XIV in 1666 to create an exit for the Canal du Midi into the Mediterranean Sea. It rapidly grew and expanded, moving from just an important…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Today we headed east to visit Alicante, which is a port city on Spain’s southeastern Costa Blanca and the capital. Some 800 – 900 years ago, Alicante marked the frontier between the Muslims and Christian, which led to the building a chain of castles…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 When we left Barcelona, the rainstorm of the previous day got a boost with massive winds. Luckily, it subsided during the night, and today we visited Palma de Mallorca, one of the Balearic islands within the archipelago of eastern Spain. We learned, however, that…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Well, we are off again! After a couple of big recent trips to immerse ourselves in the power and beauty of raw nature, this trip has no real design per se. Rather than seeing how nature shaped cultures in order to survive, this trip…
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The past 6+ months have been very stressful for our family when our son was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive blood cancer. Luckily, he was accepted into a clinical trial and, after an immunotherapy course of treatment, he was declared in remission! As a consequence, we decided this would be the perfect time for…
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Even when you live in the tropical paradise of Puerto Vallarta, you still want to get away to enjoy other parts of Mexico. Over a three-day weekend, we decided to take a roadtrip along the Costalegre (which translates to “Happy Coast”), a 280 kilometer stretch of very remote land and coastline between Puerto Vallarta and…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Sounds kind of ominous, doesn’t it? Well, this was our last day of touring and we only really had one activity for the day — descending 400 feet to the bottom of a volcanic crater and exploring. Seems easy enough, right? Let’s do it. The…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Today, we spent our time in the Husafell area, which is about a 1.5 hour drive from Reykjavik. The main reason to go was the Langjökull Ice Cave Experience. Basically, this means climbing the Langjökull glacier in a 20-ton truck that used to be a…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 The next day brought rain, a blessedly rare occurrence on our trip around Iceland. Having a boat trip to Drangey for birdwatching cancelled because most of the sea birds had already migrated, we needed something to do. Luckily, we had seen a brochure along the…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 This day started off as planned with a visit to Godafoss — the waterfall of the gods. This was actually a little piece of the Diamond Circle that we didn’t complete the day before. Godafoss is really a beautiful set of waterfalls, all part of…
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