Posts from the ‘Europe’ Category
Share Story by Randy Kalp | Photos by Bethany Salvon The balloons were ready at dawn as were the passengers. We came from all over the globe, uniting for an ascent above the ancient landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey. After being treated to one of the finest breakfasts we had on The Hazy Shade of Autumn [...]
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Share Article by Randy Kalp & photos by Bethany Salvon. – Editors Note: This is the eighth review in an ongoing series that will highlight each property–hostel and hotel–we stayed at during The Hazy Shade of Autumn Tour as part of our partnership with the good folks at HostelBookers.com, who have some fantastic deals on [...]
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Share – Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking [...]
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Share Somewhere In Time is a weekly travel photo from around the world. Enjoy! Hot Air Balloon. Hot Air Balloooooooooon… Just saying the words conjures up notions of faraway exotic illusions. What is it about this magical mystery flying machine that turns me into mush? Hot + Air + Balloon = Imaginative Thoughts of Wanderlust. [...]
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Share This is a guest post from Jessica Minier Mabe. She is not only one of our readers but also the owner of Distant Mountain Trips which orchestrates intimate & unique tours across Europe. As a former English teacher one of her favorite tours is ‘Literary Britain’. Reading her post below it is clear she [...]
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Share Editors Note: This is the seventh review in an ongoing series that will highlight each property–hostel and hotel–we stayed at during The Hazy Shade of Autumn Tour as part of our partnership with the good folks at HostelBookers.com. Despite several years of Spanish language classes, I never had a strong desire to visit Spain, [...]
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Share Standing in a darkened train compartment waving goodbye to Katarina Milenkovic, co-founder of WWOOF Serbia, at the Belgrade Station, I had the electric nervousness I often get when visiting a foreign place I know little about. As the old, reliable Soviet-era train rattled into the dark countryside, Beth and I sat silent, desperately grasping [...]
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