Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 4:47PM Rome in springtime - captivating, drenched in history and romantic. Here are some of the visual highlights from my recent soujoun...
Highlight - the scenery, the history, the light, the food and gelato!
Lowlight - the crowds...
Traffic at the colosseum on Via de San Gregorio
Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 3:15PM A recent hiking trip took us from Ravello, through Amalfi, Conca dei Marini and Praiano to Positano over an 8 day period.
The trip was a great mix of rugged coastline and peaceful forests with many small family farms dotted amongst the terraces. Travelling in May provided some amazing colours and glorious light throughout our journey and allowed us to meet the genuine locals along the way.
Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 11:27AM Montenegro was the unexpected highlight of our trip. We travelled from Sarajevo, stopping at the Ostrog Monastery and continuing to the coastal cities of Budva and Kotor.
The Monastery of Ostrog (Манастир Острог) is a Serb Orthodox Church monastery built into an almost vertical cliff around 900 metres above sea level. The Monastery was founded by Vasilije, the Metropolitan Bishop of Herzegovina in the 17th century and is the most popular pilgrimage place in Montenegro.
After visiting the Monastery, we travelled to Budva and Kotor on the Montenegrin coastline of the Adriatic Sea. The Bay of Kotor was stunning and is a submerged river canyon, but resembles a fjord. A little piece of Scandinavia in the Balkans!
Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 11:20AM Dubrovnik was the final leg of our recent Balkan adventure through Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro.
Dubrovnik has always been an important maritime city, and a strategic seaport for those that have inhabited it. The Old Town shows its Venetian heritage with encircling defensive walls and streets of limestone that have been polished smooth by centuries of foot traffic. The walls that surround the city are around 6 metres thick on the landward side and up to 14 metres high on the seaward side.
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