I really enjoy markets, and the night market in Luang Prabang was really interesting to walk around in. No one was pushy, just really friendly. I tried taking a few pictures, but the lights made my photos blurry. I ended up really liking the effect with this one.
Several years ago, I was in Ushuaia, Argentina for just a day after an Antarctica cruise. Since my friend and I got off the ship in the morning and our flight to Buenos Aires wasn’t until that night, we spent a few hours at Tierra del Fuego National Park. It was a gorgeous park, and [...]
October is done and gone. We had a big snow a few weeks ago and it is rainy and cold and dark. Winter is coming, but so are Christmas markets. Time for another round-up of the daily photos on Ctrl-Alt-Travel. They get put up every morning to remind you what day it is and provide [...]
The Acropolis in Athens, Greece is one of the most famous structures in the world. I was there a few years ago when they were still doing work on it, so my pictures all have scaffolding. Athens wasn’t one of my (or Andy’s) favorite places in Greece, but I wouldn’t mind seeing this again without [...]
When I was in New Zealand, my first stop was Wellington. I had booked a cheap flight to Auckland, but after hearing so much about how beautiful train travel was in New Zealand, I decided to ditch the plane ticket and book a seat on one of the scenic trains. It was a 12 hour [...]
While wandering around Porto, Portugal, one of the things that surprised me was this statue of a newspaper delivery man next to a post box. It honored people who delivered newspapers, though I’m not sure why it was next to a post box.
When I visited Cambodia, it was the tail end of rainy season, and on this particular day it rained on and off the whole time I was at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap. This rainbow was in the sky when I arrived, and I thought it was the perfect addition to this scene.
The Manneken Pis is quite a famous statue in Brussels, and many also know about Jeanneken Pis. However the least known of the peeing statues in Brussels is the peeing dog, Zinneken Pis. It doesn’t appear to be set up as a fountain like the other two, and no one else was around when we [...]
Andy and I weren’t in Lisbon, Portugal for very long, but we fell in love with the city immediately. We wandered through the streets on our only night there, taking pictures of the architecture and fountains like this one, and enjoying the breeze from the ocean. It’s definitely a city we need to return to.
Happy Halloween! While this holiday is not celebrated nearly as much here in Germany as it is in the US, there are signs of fall all around. These wreaths were for sale in the local market in Freiburg the last time I walked through.