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waiting at the Delhi station for the train to Agra

Transport: Ways of Getting from Here to There

February 25, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 8 Comments

Planes, trains and automobiles. Not to mention bicycles, buses and boats. Planes. “Do we really want to get on a plane whose company logo is a flying white elephant?” I […]

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Collections from Around the World, Friendly Friday Photo Challenges
standing stones at Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona

Standing Stones From Around the World

February 23, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 18 Comments

I’ve been racking my brains for a topic that starts with S. At first the only thing I came up with was ‘Sketches of Stones’ but then I thought ‘Stonehenge’, […]

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Collections from Around the World, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Here another set of really 'red' rocks, this near Cafayate in Argentina.

The Colour Red Around the World 2

February 22, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

A quick tour of reds from around the world. Mexico has red hot chile peppers! And these are habaneros which are the hottest of the bunch! And then there is the red […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World
The riper (redder) the habaneros are, the hotter they are. 

Chiles, the Spice of Mexican Life

February 18, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

Chiles, along with corn and beans, are the foundation of Mexican cooking. Once I discovered more about the various types of chiles, I started adding them to all sorts of […]

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Mexican Food, Mexico
Hot Chocolate is a speciality for the breakfast at Restaurante El Cardenal in Mexico City

Chocolate, a Gift From the God Quetzalcóatl of Mexico

February 13, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

A legend (leyenda) from Mesoamerica tells us that Quetzalcóatl, the plumed serpent, stole chocolate from the gods and gave it to the people of the earth. Chocolate originated in Mesoamerica, and you […]

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Ingredients, Mexican Food, Spanish Lessons
Moody sunset at Long Beach on Vancouver Island, 1974

A Photographic Journey, 1973-1979

February 5, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 10 Comments

I had started my art college photography course with an ancient bellows camera but was soon coveting the other students’ substantially more advanced cameras. On a student budget it took […]

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Collections from Around the World, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
mural of a horse race in Bucerias, Mexico

Artworks of Horses from Around the World

February 3, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

A collection of artworks of horses from around the world. A little revolutionary stands in front of a statue of Pancho Villa riding in on a galloping horse. The statue […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World
old Kodak bellows camera shown from the side

A Photographic Journey, 1972

February 2, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 21 Comments

This wondrous Kodak is the camera I used for my first real travel experience – a trip to Denmark in 1965. You can read about that experience which includes my first […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Aceituna (olive). Translating as 'oily one', olives are on offer everywhere in Spain.

Spanish Food Words with Arabic Origins

January 9, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

When the Moors arrived in Spain in 711 C.E. they brought with them advanced agricultural methods in addition to introducing many new crops including sugar cane, rice, ginger and saffron […]

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Spain, Spanish Lessons
pierced red metal heart and wood sculpture / red berries against rusty corrugated tin wall; two photos next to each other in my photo previewer

2020 Photos in Review

January 8, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 10 Comments

Let’s face it, I have been somewhat of a Grinch this Christmas. All over the internet everyone was writing ‘Merry Christmas’ and I was thinking “What’s so merry about it?” […]

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BC, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge

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The Thorvaldsen Museum of Sculptures in Copenhagen has tiled floors in complex geometric, almost art deco, patternsThorvaldsen designed the entire 'look' of the museum in order to highlight his neo-classical sculptures - this one of the goddess Venus with an apple
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