When spring blooming is over at lower elevations, it starts in the high mountains. June and July are usually the peak of wildflower blooming in the Alps, and we brought you some pretty flowers from there, because… well, I guess I like my wildflower pictures, and I grab every occasion to show them to anyone…
Category: Photo Essay
12 Beautiful Spring Scenes From Tenerife
They say Columbus called Tenerife the island of eternal spring. With its pleasantly warm, but not too hot weather all year, with some wind and veil clouds often in the sky, it definitely is. Moreover, we actually visited it in March and April, so we could enjoy wonderful spring wildflowers wherever we went. On the…
Virtual Hike: Fusine Lakes In The Italian Alps
Who wouldn’t love a magical alpine lake? What about two? Plus some giant white granite peaks? Let us take you to Italy’s Fusine Lakes in the Julian Alps. We’ve actually found this hike on our road trip in Slovenia’s Julian Alps. What? Yes, located only about 6 kilometres from the Slovene-Italian border, it’s a perfect…
Our Best Photos Of 2020
At the end of each year, we publish a post about our best travel moments and also our best photos of the year. While the post about travel moments is a personal one with pictures that awaken warm feelings in us, this photo collection is focused on (surprise!) photography. I collect the best photos I’ve…
Autumn In Hungary’s Zemplén Mountains
We took another trip in mid-November and caught the last days to enjoy the autumn colors in the forest of Zemplén Mountains before all the leaves fell (and before all the hotels got closed to tourists in Hungary). We only spent a weekend there, and we’ll surely go back when we can take trips again.…
Autumn In Hungary’s Kőszeg Mountains
This autumn we ventured to a region we’ve never been before but we’ve been planning to visit for a while: Kőszeg Mountains. This is a protected area located partly in Vas County in Hungary, and partly in Burgenland in Austria. The area in Hungary is part of Őrség National Park and offers lovely forest trails,…
Skógar Valley: Skógafoss And A Dozen More Enchanted Waterfalls
Skógafoss is one of the iconic waterfalls of Southern Iceland. It’s a busy place. But lesser people know that it’s also an entrance to an enchanted valley of a dozen more waterfalls: Skógar Valley. We’ve already written a post about our favorite canyons in Iceland, and Skógar Valley has its place on that list. It…
15 Fairy Tale Places In The Soča Valley, Slovenia
Are you saying that Soča Valley itself is a fairy tale place? You’re right. It’s our favorite region in Slovenia, too. But we’d like to give you some ideas where to start exploring it, and also show you lesser known places that we only discovered on our second visit. Soča River Trail Soča River (or…
Take A Walk In The Palace District Of Budapest
Are you looking for amazing architecture in Budapest? Take a walk in the Palace District! We could spend hours walking around and photographing the beautiful buildings there. Let us give you an insight – with lots of pictures. Where is the Palace District (Palotanegyed in Hungarian) in the first place? It’s the western part of…