Purple and Green: Across the Lavender Fields in Provence
Smooth hills, green trees and the purple spots of the lavender fields. As I drove across this enchanting landscape …
Travel and Dangerous Places: Is it all a Matter of Perception?
Protests in Egypt, violence and criminality in Venezuela, nuclear contamination in Japan, sexual assaults in India and Brazil, conflicts …
New Zealand Into the Wind: Sailing Abel Tasman NP
My love affair with Abel Tasman National Park started with a short sailing trip along the coast. Seeing places …
A Lovely Hike From Grindelwald to the Pretty Bachalpsee
I have a thing for small mountain lakes. I hiked in the Peruvian Andes to see the wonderful Laguna …
Postcards From Marseille Vieux Port
Don’t you find that cities by the sea, a lake or a river have a special touch? No matter …
The Magnificent Ravenna Mosaics of S. Apollinare Nuovo
As I stood in front of the Ravenna mosaics, I thought that art sometimes looks close to a miracle… That’s …
Avignon ‘Palais des Papes’, Masterpiece of Gothic Architecture
The magic of the ‘Palais des Papes’ is in its magnificence and the emotions it inspires. Magnificent and austere, …
