Over the Rainbow...
... and over mountains, hills, plateaus, highways and byways: A pilgrim’s journey spanning 25...
Halfway Sea and Sky...
... and the Strangeness Beyond: Reminding me the feeling of motorcycle driving. First stop: F...
Leaving Land
Gothenburg Archipelago (Ferry heading to Kiel for a 25-day motorcycle trip): 30 Aug 2021, 07:...
Leaving Land from Gothenburg
On the Ferry heading to Kiel: 30 Aug 2021, 07:30 pm, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f.4.0 ...
The First Climb: French Pyrenées
View from my room at Hotel Mas Lluganas, Mosset, France: 2 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuik...
Iberian Spell
In the blink of an eye, the light stands still in its endless orbit. Huesca, Spain: 3 Sept 2...
A Whiter Shade of Green
Domestic Duck in a pond: Mirador Las Grullas, Huesca, Spain: 4 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | ...
The Crown and the Cross:
Belmont Castle (from 1258 AD), home to the Portuguese ‘discover’ of Brazil in 1500, Pedro Álv...
Belmonte: View from the Castle
A good entryway to the Portuguese highlands: Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f.4.0 | at 12 ...
Ruling Rome: Imperial power
'Centum Cellas' Ruins (e.g. living quarters, storages, paleo-Christian chapel) of the 1st cen...
'Centum Cellas': Main building
Roman Origins: A symbol of imperial power in Lusitania, the well-preserved monument was part ...
Revisiting Family Roots
The rugged, granite massif of Estrela Mountains have arguably shaped their people (I confirm ...
Estrela Mountain
Highest mountain range in Continental Portugal (up to 1993 m): deep valley's cut by ancient g...
Would You Dare?...
... Crossing the largest (516-meter-long) pedestrian suspension bridge in the world: A rainy ...
Arouca Bridge: the passageway
Largest (516 m) pedestrian suspension bridge in the world, 175 m over the Paiva river banks. ...
Risk with a Return
Crossing the largest (516-meter-long) pedestrian suspension bridge in the world: Shaky but st...
Arouca Bridge and the Paiva River Valley
7 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f.4.0
Arouca Bridge: Early Morning View
7 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f.4.0 | at 12 mm | 1/80’’| f/ 14 | ISO 200.
Paiva River Bank with Climbing Goats
View from the pedestrian suspension bridge, where a herd of climbing goats could be spotted (...
The Golden-Green Valley
A must in everybody's wishing list: Riverboat cruising and train journey along the Douro vall...
Douro Wine Landscape
Long standing terracing for Port and Table Wine production, 9 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | ...
The Harvest
Do you see the pickers? Douro, 8 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f.4.0 | at 31 m...
Douro Wine Terraces
Typical wine terracing by the Douro River, 9 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f.4...
‘The Best Road in the World’ (2015)
A view of the N-222 Road from Peso da Régua to Pinhão: a wonderful stretch of 27km and 93 ben...
Stream to Sky, and the slope in-between
Douro Valley, 9 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f.4.0 | at 41 mm | 1/400’’| f/ 5...
Douro Reflections
Small and Large, Below as Above. What could be missing? 8 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko...
The Golden Borderland
Douro River from the Miradouro de S. Salvador do Mundo, 8 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko...
Upper Douro Dividing Lines
Nearing the Portuguese-Spanish border: The bountiful and the Wasteland: Moncorvo by the Douro...
Highlights from Picos de Europa
3 Major Events: The Tectonic Collision (Eurasian and Iberian plates, c. 300 Million years ago...
Cable Car at Fuente Dé
The aerial tramways run on a 1450-meter-long cable, over a 753-m vertical drop; Bottom and up...
Nightfall over the Bay of Biscay and the Basque Mountains
To note (pale seafront) three major phases of ‘Flisch’ marine sediments gathering 50+ million...
Headlines, again...
“Climate Summit Leaders Urged to Think about the Young” (COP26, BBC News, 1 Nov. 2021). Goal:...
Sunrise over the Bay of Biscay and the Basque Mountains
The Horizon is c. 20km away. Notes from a motorcycle journey: Mendexa, 17 Sept 2021, Olympus ...
Daybreak over the Bay of Biscay and the Basque Mountains
The Horizon is c. 10km away. Notes from a motorcycle journey: Mendexa, 17 Sept 2021, Olympus ...
Bird’s eye view of the typical steeper slopes of the Basque Coast
Notes from a motorcycle journey: Lekeitio, 16 Sept 2021, Olympus E-M1 Mk2 | Zuiko 12-100mm f....
Moonlight Splendor Concealing a Cruel Past
The ascetic Albigensis Sect was brutally wiped out here in 1229, at the end of a 20-year crus...
Homeward-Bound
‘Away is Good but Home is Best’ as the Swedish saying goes: A final picture of the series rec...