As you walk around Budapest, you’re confronted constantly with lovely Danube vistas, day and night. In fact, the buildings that line the river make up collectively a view that’s been … Read more
The Matthias Church at the top of the Buda castle hill has been through many iterations since the first church was built on the site in 1015. The first building … Read more
We sure do spend a lot of time in museums and churches and the like. So we thought we’d break up the week in Budapest with an old style–read Eastern … Read more
Kris and I have been in Budapest for a week now, and we’ve spent much of that time walking along both sides of the Danube, crossing the bridges and strolling … Read more
Editor’s note: Do you want to learn more about Budapest…from home? As a result of the 2020 pandemic, Context Travel has introduced an excellent series of virtual seminars. These live, … Read more
Since we’ve been traveling, I’ve done some bold (for me) things. I’ve hiked 120 km in the Guatemalan jungle. I’ve climbed Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. I’ve hiked most of the … Read more
Some sunsets are better than others, but that’s no excuse to keep from trying. I got up to a point near Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park to shoot the … Read more
Driving down the scenic Hwy. 101 between the north and south parts of Redwood National Park. There seems to be fog here most of the time, so why not just … Read more
The drive to see the vaunted Crater Lake National Park was interrupted before it got started. We’d stayed north of the park the night before and planned on getting an … Read more
Since we started this western road trip, every day has been hot and relentlessly sunny. So when we woke to a foggy, cloudy and rainy sky on the day of … Read more
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