Roaming Hadrian’s Wall Virtual Style
admin2024-11-04T11:18:46-08:00ENGLAND Hadrian's Wall - I’m a purist trekker when it comes to walking long-distance designated trails, insisting that they be step-by-step odysseys completed in one [...]
Akureyui Botanic Garden
admin2024-11-22T13:48:36-08:00ICELAND Akureyui - It is not the most northerly botanic garden in the world but one of the most northerly gardens, sharing that distinction with those hardy plants [...]
Musée de National du Moyen Âge
admin2022-08-12T19:11:19-07:00FRANCE Paris - The traffic noise at the corner of busy Saint-Germain and Saint-Michel boulevards turned muffled murmur this September day as I entered [...]
Paris – Promenade Plantée
admin2022-01-19T13:17:03-08:00FRANCE Paris - It’s a charming scene to visualize, Parisians boarding the Vincennes railway to spend the day , picnic basket in hand, [...]
Czech Republic’s forward-thinking garden
admin2024-11-22T13:59:23-08:00CZECH REPUBLIC Brno - Think Czech Republic and Prague springs to mind, everyone’s mind, as elbow-to-elbow encounters in the city’s picturesque old town attests. [...]
Kolymbetra – Sicily’s Valley of the Temples’ hidden garden
admin2021-07-27T11:47:53-07:00ITALY Sicily - I could not help but wonder as we wandered among Magna Graecia structures dedicated to the gods why this UNESCO archaeological site [...]
St. Michael’s Mount unexpected garden
admin2021-02-28T15:57:49-08:00ENGLAND Cornwall - If the tide is out, you can walk a quarter-mile cobblestone causeway to St. Michael’s Mount. Don't worry if you linger on [...]
Leonardo da Vinci’s last home – Chateau de Clos Lucé
admin2020-12-07T09:37:57-08:00FRANCE- Amboise. How many historic, over-the-top, Loire architectural monuments to money and power can one ooh and aah over before chateau fatigue settles in? I [...]
Tiny Chédigny a France garden star
admin2020-05-26T07:45:42-07:00The Loire Valley village of Chedigny, in its entirety, is a designated Jardin Remarkable. FRANCE Chedigny - Perhaps I wasn’t on the right [...]
Hampton Court’s gardens tell centuries of tales
admin2020-04-14T15:40:08-07:00Sweeping landscape surrounds England's 16th century answer to France's Versailles. ENGLAND Surrey - Every year, thousands of people from all over the world [...]