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Spring Green Leaves at Pacific Spirit Park

Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons Around the City

February 19, 2016by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

Seasons in the city of Vancouver… Spring green leaves at Pacific Spirit Park up by UBC. Summer is beach time.Autumn on Commercial Drive. We don’t usually get snow but when we […]

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BC, Weekly Photo Challenge
Chinese New Year Flowering Quince Bonsai

Chinese New Year 2015: Year of the Goat, Ram, Sheep

February 7, 2016by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

Today is the last day of the ‘Year of the Goat (or Ram or Sheep)’, tomorrow the ‘Year of the Monkey’ starts! Here are some photos from the 2015 Chinese New Year Celebration in Vancouver to […]

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Springtime in the Bruges and these strange trees are just leafing out

Travel Theme: Strange Belgian Trees

April 27, 2015by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

Springtime in Belgium and all around are these strange trees just beginning to leaf out… More of Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Trees.

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Belgium, Gardens, Travel Theme
Welcome to Victoria, a Weather Wood Sign

Outdoors along Victoria’s Harbour

March 28, 2015by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

I put this post together last week for Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Spring. But looking at the final post I realized that ‘Spring’ was a lot more about being outdoors in March, enjoying the […]

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BC, Travel Theme
Cherry Blossoms in Victoria

Travel Theme: Experiencing Spring in March

March 22, 2015by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

In the Northwest of North America the entire month of March is always all about spring. My two favourite places to experience SPRING (in capital letters) are La Conner, Washington and Victoria, BC. La […]

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BC, Travel Theme, Washington, Western USA & Canada
Texture of Spring: Pussy Willow

The Texture of Spring

March 27, 2014by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

This is an experiment in trying to capture the ‘texture’ of spring in a different way than my usual macros of flowers. These images didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped, […]

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BC, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Photo Apps, Photo Challenges, Western USA & Canada
dunes near De Panne

A Damp Morning Walking in the Belgian Dunes

August 17, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

This morning we visited the Staatsnatuurreservaat De Westhoek, a dunes and nature reserve about 2k out of De Panne. Even though it wasn’t actually raining it was cold and windy. Primroses […]

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Belgium, Road Trip
halloumi and asparagus salad

Mikey’s spring salad with asparagus and halloumi recipe

April 20, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

It’s that time of year again – asparagus time! When my friend Mikey, visiting from England, saw asparagus on sale for 99¢ a pound, he ran out and bought us […]

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Eat Drink Travel, USA & Canada
cherry blossom pink

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

April 11, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

PINK PETAL POWER! This week the colour theme in Vancouver is PINK: cherry blossoms carpet the roads with pink petals, magnolia flowers explode with pink flowers, and then there are all those […]

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