Ireland, a Nation of Story Tellers and Poets (and Pubs)
‘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 […]
Category Archives: Europe
Berck-sur-Mer on the Opal Coast of Northern France
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 […]
The Wild Rock Textures of Loophead in Ireland
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 […]
Protest House in Fishguard, Wales
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 […]
Treasure Hunt in Spain
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. […]
An Evening in the Golden Hours of Grebbestad, Sweden
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 […]
Travelling through Medieval Denmark
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 […]
On a Lake in the Woods on a Hot Summer’s Day in Sweden
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 […]
Side trip from Delft to the Dunes in Holland
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 […]
Freshwater East, a Beach with Two-Tone Rocks in Wales
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 […]
Albatz Travel Adventures 