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Buddha and leg chains in the notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh has been turned into a Genocide Museum cataloguing one of the atrocities of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)

The Genocide Museum in Cambodia

March 24, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

The notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh has been turned into a Genocide Museum cataloguing one of the atrocities of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Portraits of torturers covered […]

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Cambodia
A tile mural at Cinacina showing a gaucho riding sport

To Throw the Horse Out the Window: Gauchos in South America

March 21, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

A saying relating to gauchos is to ‘tira el caballo por la ventana’ – ‘throw the horse out of the window’. It means to spare no expense, something gauchos do with regularity […]

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Argentina, South American
Sim Card Data Packages in Mexico 2019

Buying a SIM Card & Data in Mexico

March 17, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

In Puerto Vallarta we went to several places to find a SIM card but they turned out to be only available at the ubiquitous OXXO, the 7/11 of Mexico. ¿Está […]

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Mexico
Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica

Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica

March 14, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

March 25, 2011. We didn’t get off as early as we had hoped. First Al insisted that we wait for the woman to come and take our breakfast order. Of […]

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Costa Rica
For me it was the beach with a pile of bleached driftwood against blue-black rocks with the ocean surging in the background.

Point No Point on Vancouver Island

February 28, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

My friend and I had travelled along the West Coast Road (aka HWY 14) as part of a sketching trip in 2003. Sue and I followed a path that ran […]

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BC
Posters in Belfast have poems about planting: 'Seeds grow in the cupped hands of patient children and shoot from inside pockets, out of sleeves and collars'

Ireland, a Nation of Story Tellers and Poets (and Pubs)

January 28, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures 19 Comments

‘This is my HOMELAND’, a home on the bleak landscape of the Donegal Peninsula in the Republic of Ireland. Ireland is a nation of story tellers and poets. It started early […]

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Ireland, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
The beach at Berck-sur-Mer on the Normandy Coast of France

Berck-sur-Mer on the Opal Coast of Northern France

January 24, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

Berck-sur-Mer was a famous ‘spa’* town in the 19th Century. The beach at Berck-sur-Mer with a church and the old Sanitorium in the background. The Sanitorium is being torn down […]

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France, Road Trip
The morning fish market in Zihuatanejo took place by the old beach

Zihuatanejo on the Mexican Pacific Coast

January 22, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

December 8, 2019. One of the other guests in our hotel had mentioned Playa Ropa, up the highway a short ways and then down a steep walkway.We decided to try […]

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Mexico
salt flats (Salinas Grandes)near Purmamarca in Argentina

Salt Flats near Salta in Argentina

December 24, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

Las Salinas Grandes (Great Salt Flats) in the High Puna of Argentina are at 3,450 metres (11 320 feet) above sea level. Pools of turquoise water and mounds of salt.Salt […]

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Argentina, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
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The Merienda, Argentinian-Style Afternoon ‘Tea’

December 20, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

The merienda is the equivalent of the traditional English ‘tea’ of Argentina, only in the case of Argentina, it is something to fill in those long, hungry hours before the […]

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Argentina, South American

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