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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 17 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 Wild Rock Textures of Loophead in Ireland

The Wild Rock Textures of Loophead in Ireland

November 24, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 11 Comments

At the Loophead Lighthouse we saw some photos of the nearby rock formations and just had to go exploring the area. The walk from the Loophead Lighthouse to the nearby […]

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Ireland, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Protest House in Fishguard, Wales

Protest House in Fishguard, Wales

November 4, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

June 5, 2016, Sunday. Cardigan to Newport. After an eventful morning going way back in time to the Stone Age at Pentre Ifan (and its associated brewery), we then moved […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Wales
Covadonga Lagos (Lakes)

Treasure Hunt in Spain

October 1, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

This week the Lens-Artists photo challenge, lead by Tina, leads us on a hunt to find treasures. I decided to try to find all the treasures in one country: Spain. […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Spain
Boat in Grebbestad harbour in Sweden

An Evening in the Golden Hours of Grebbestad, Sweden

August 25, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 7 Comments

June 4, 2018. From Alingsås we drove a leisurely route to the Bohuslän coast of Sweden, continuing along it and stopping at the seaside villages of Grundsund, Fiskebäckskil and Fjällbacka […]

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Beer & Cider, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Road Trip, Sweden
The site at Trelleborg has a recreation of a Viking Longhouse based on the foundations of the buildings

Travelling through Medieval Denmark

August 13, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

May 30, 2018. This was the day we had an extended encounter with the Medieval world in Denmark. We started in the 1300s in Vordingborg at the Medieval War Strategy […]

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Denmark, Experiencing History, Road Trip
The firepit on a warm summer's night

On a Lake in the Woods on a Hot Summer’s Day in Sweden

July 22, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 14 Comments

June 1, 2018. Unseasonably hot weather, 31° every day, was not what we had expected of Sweden. But my cousin lived in the woods by a lake so it seemed […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Sweden
A Mermaid Watches Over the Holland Duins

Side trip from Delft to the Dunes in Holland

July 5, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

On our second day in Delft we decided make a side trip to see some more of Holland. We stopped in Gouda but we could only find was one hour […]

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Europe, Holland
Freshwater East beach and rock formations in Wales

Freshwater East, a Beach with Two-Tone Rocks in Wales

July 2, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

June 7, 2016. Started the day off right with kippered herrings and a poached egg in Milford Haven. From here we headed across to the Pembrokeshire Coast peninsula looking for a […]

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Wales

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A Blog about magic, fiction and art

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A photographic journey.

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Not really embarrassed.

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

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