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Formal gardens surround the Newstead Abbey ruins that sit next to the ancestral home of Lord Bryon

The Garden of Newstead Abbey in England

March 16, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

The only garden we managed to visit in England this trip and it was pouring with rain. The Abbey in Newstead is a ruin sitting next to the ancestral home […]

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England, Gardens
Taco accompaniments of radishes, limes, pickled vegetable, red hot sauce and even hotter green salsa made with the green ghost chiles

Red & Green Complementary Colour Harmonies in Mexico

August 18, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

Colour harmony is such a huge subject I was quickly overwhelmed with options. I eventually decided I was only going to explore Red & Green colour combinations, and only in Mexico, […]

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Friendly Friday Photo Challenges, Gardens, Mexican Food, Mexico
An orchid with purple markings in the Singapore Botanical Garden

A Single Flower in Singapore

June 15, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 17 Comments

You can find flowers everywhere in Singapore, even in the airport where orchids were artfully arranged on the stainless steel platforms of the luggage carousels. There were flowers in the […]

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Gardens, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Singapore
Prickly Pear cactus growing on the side of the great Pyramid in Cholula, Mexico

Opuntia, the Prickly Pear Cactus, with Edible Paddles and Fruit

May 19, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

The Prickly Pear cactus (Opuntia), with its distinctive oval paddles dotted with spines, flowers and fruits, prefers the arid lands of Las Americas. A wild Prickly Pear cactus growing on […]

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American Southwest, BC, Gardens, Mexico & Central America, South American
Saguro cactus with yellow daisies

Prickly Cactuses from Las Americas

April 29, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

Ouch, ouch, ouch! Some prickly customers from las Americas. Red flowers blooming on low barrel cactus in the mountain near Tafi in Argentina.The first spring rain in five years came […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World, Gardens
Bamboo against a faded yellow wall in Hoi An wall (Vietnam).

Bamboo from Around the World

November 28, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 12 Comments

Bamboo from around the world. Boats on the bamboo-fringed pond in the painter Monet’s famous garden in Giverny, France. A stand of bamboo in a Royal Tomb garden in Hue, Vietnam.Graffiti […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World, Gardens
Dahlias in Dublin Botanical Garden

Dahlias in the Dublin Botanical Garden in Late September

September 26, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

Flowers and fun! September 20, 2015.  Dublin managed to combine two of my favourite things, a botanical garden and an art gallery showing off plant-themed sculptures or creative interpretations of what it means […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Gardens, Ireland
The 'Horoscope Garden' within the Fressin Medieval Castle Ruins, France

Medieval Gardens at the Feudal Castle in Fressin, France

May 23, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

The three medieval gardens dating back to the 15th century within the ruins of the Feudal Castle in Fressin are the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Evil and the Garden of Good. A three-dimensional […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, France, Gardens
Singapore Botanical Garden Orchids

Orchids in the Garden

May 9, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

Singapore is THE place to see orchids. Even if you’re only picking up your luggage at the Singapore airport there is an orchid display on the midsection of the luggage carousels. And if […]

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Gardens, Singapore, Travel Theme
Flame Tulip in Stackables

To Read in Holland: The Tulip Craze (and the First Financial Bubble)

April 14, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 8 Comments

1637 was date of the collapse of the world’s first speculative bubble, all created by a passion for tulips. In Holland people mortgaged their houses to buy and sell tulip bulbs for ever-increasing […]

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Gardens, Holland, Novels and Travel Books, Washington

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