“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men’s bones.” ~Liam O Flaithearta Since the aftermath of Tropical Storm Aileen was pummeling the Isle of Skye and the rest of the Hebrides, I headed to the northeast corner of Scotland where sunnier…
European Adventures
2017 Euro-Adventure Stop 5 – Isle of Skye, Scotland
While spending a week in Scotland, I kept getting whopped over the head with these eerie senses of deja vu. Either I had spent too much time looking through photos of these places or there is some sort of collective memory stored in my blood. Scotland was like coming home! The day before arrive in…
2017 Euro-Adventure Stop 4 – Malcesine/Lake Garda, Italy
Malcesine, a small cobblestone village on the eastern short of Lake Garda, was the perfect finale to our 2017 Italian Avventura. We went from freezing, snowy mountains to freezing, rainy palm trees and beaches. We rolled into Malcesine just in time for sunset and wandered the charming cobblestone streets choosing the world’s worst pizzeria for…
2017 Euro-Adventure Stop 3 – Chamonix, France
Although it broke my heart to leave the Dolomites after only 4 days, I wanted to show Fritz Chamonix, which so captured my heart five years earlier. My reward for recovering from my first FAI surgery was a 2-week trip to Chamonix to hike the Tour du Mont Blanc. It was my first solo trip…
The Doorknobs (and Windows) of Provence
Rain they take as a personal affront, shaking their heads and commiserating with each other in the cafés, looking with profound suspicion at the sky as though a plague of locusts is about to descend, and picking their way with distaste through the puddles on the pavement. ~Peter Mayle from A Year in Provence It…