Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “europe”
After a couple years of absence, I’ve returned to the Cyclades Islands of Greece for a week. This time we visited the islands of Amorgos and Mykonos. In this article, I am sharing my experience photographing the former, with some brief notes about the latter. The previously published articles about the Cyclades can be found here: Exploring the Cyclades: Ios …
by Bob McCormac This is a multi-part article encompassing my 20-day trip to the Nordic countries that spawned the Vikings and where they left their mark on civilization. In most areas, those direct influences have long since been erased but the impact on the cultures is still apparent in each country. Some of the articles also cover the neighboring countries, …
by Ambra Pidroni and Attilio Pregnolato. An Italian version of this article originally appeared at The World’s Paths. Isle of Skye, the place where ancient myths and legends were born. Vikings who came from the cold and bloodthirsty Scotsmen confronted each other in these lands where stories of elves and druids abund. How could we not visit such a place? …
by Bethany Lloyd I’ve visited Austria a few times now and each spell has been unfortunately brief. I’ve had just enough time on each of my visits to make me want to come back for more. I’ve dipped in and out of Innsbruck once or twice during my time in the South Tyrol but it was only ever long enough …
The Plitvice Lakes National Park (Nacionalni park “Plitvička jezera”) in Croatia is likely the most popular tourist attraction of the country and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It contains 16 lakes, separated from each other by natural travertine dams that form a large number of waterfalls. Given its unique beauty and its popularity, it is unsurprising that the park is very crowded, …
Two weeks, five countries and more than 3,000km. I had been planning this trip for months: a long drive from Italy, across Slovenia, and down along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia into Montenegro, with a side trip to Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, all places that I had been wanting to visit for years, but that (aside from a short trip …
