Imagine creating a palace from an idea that came from tripping over a stone? This palace located in Hauterives, France is called a “Temple of Nature” and was created from a dream and an idea that came from simply tripping over a stone. Construction of this building started in 1879 by postman Ferdinand Cheval and …
While Parc Guell is a well known and highly visited location, with hundreds of visitors daily the average traveler looking for the perfect instagram photo of Barcelona will pay a fee to enter the Parc. A walk up the Northside gives a perfect view of the city of Barcelona.
The Arte Sella open-air museum in Trentino, Italy is an unexpected encounter if ever there was one. Created all from materials taken from the earth, this trail of wonder speaks to the imagination and how resourceful one can be to create such beauty. 1 Visitors
This fantasy garden became the Umpheiston Sinkhole as the result of a collapsed cave that was transformed in 1886 into today’s beautifully manicured greenery. 1 Visitors
The Poble Espanyol is an open-air museum located in Barcelona, Spain that was originally created in 1929 as a temporary construction for the Barcelona International Exhibition. However, its popularity and demand from the people of Catalunya resulted in the 117 full-size buildings representing every region in Spain to remain. The symbolic buildings, squares, and streets …
The golden object in the water was not a disc, but a sacred ivory gold turtle, glistening in the Tahitian sun. Hardly believing our eyes or our fortune, we all scrambled for cameras and cell phones to capture this sovereign marvel. I felt I was cast in a Keystone Kops reel, bumping and stumbling into …
The steep trail up a sun-dappled mosaic of concrete pavers was as arduous as it was idyllic. The pieces of Eden revealed at each and every step were the admission fees to a panorama of indescribable Tahitian beauty. Lush vegetation enveloped the trail to the right … and to the left … mountains of emerald …
Our foray into parts unknown on the Tahitian island of Huahine was an adventure from the moment we boarded the jaunty open air jitney. The travel brochures cautioned that this was not an excursion for the sleight of heart or the tender of seat. Truer words were never spoken. The rutted roads, canopied overhead by …
Lying there in my stateroom, something warm and content stirred within me … gently urging my eyes open to meet a Bora Bora day in Paradise. Reluctant to leave my sweet awakening, yet impatient to experience the day ahead, I eased out of bed, stretched luxuriously and headed for the shower. Refreshed and resplendent in …
The tender boat taxied our group across the waters to the cruise line’s private Motu just a scant distance from our cruise ship. As we drew near the dock, a group of bright and beautiful sarong-wrapped young ambassadors from our ship were waiting our arrival … singing lilting local songs and strumming ukuleles and guitars. …