Looking at these photos certainly inspires me to return for another Camino, both for the experience of meeting people from all over the world and of taking photographs now that I know how to use a camera. A lot of these are pretty rough, but it’s also fair to say that cellphone camera technology was not quite as good nine years ago.
Anyone want to hit the Way?
Mostly cats, along with a few other sights.
Delphi November 202321 photos
Meteora Greece December 202329 photos
Bulgaria July 202220 photos
While my photographs are hardly art, it does seem relevant to quote Saramago here as I think about my last trip to Portugal: “Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of...
This truly is the most beautiful city in the world.
Six years is a long gap between travel recommendations. After my 2016 stay in Porto, I wrote a post with my recommendations for the city that I’ve probably shared a few hundred times, but time and, I suspect, Covid, have led to some of those great spots closing down. Farewell, Moustache Cafe! But as some places close, others emerge, and while I only had a few...
In the seven years since I first visited Porto, the city has changed. Massive construction projects in the city have blocked dozens of roads, and the traffic is so bad in some areas that police work at every intersection. The abandoned warehouses lining the river that were the setting for some amazing photos have been replaced with new construction and bars. The...