We travel to compare our imagination with reality.
The Plitvice Lakes were just high up on the bucket list and in July 2018 it was the right time to go. With Motorhome and bicycle. The views were breathtaking, the waterfalls energizing, the lakes tranquilizing and the whole day a gift from God.
Originally my plan was to take my motor home and travel to the Delta of the River Danube in Romania. But I was not sure about opening times of Camping Sites in April and became nervous to explore uncharted territory on my own. Therefore a better known and also very attractive destination got a chance: Sicily. In hindsight I should have taken more time for all sections of the trip: driving down, around the island and back up. I did it in about nine days. 3+3+3…
Day 1, 14.04.2018
Haag to Cesenatico
Day 2, 15.04.2018
Bari
Day 3, 16.04.2018
Onto Sicily
Day 4, 17.04.2018
Palermo
Day 5, 18.04.2018
Arigent
Camping near Syrakus
Day 6, 19.04.2018
Syrakus
Farewell Sicily
Day 7, 20.04.2018
To Bolsena at Lake Bolsena
Day 8, 21.04.2018
Siena, Florence, Malcesine
As Andalusia was high on the bucket list for a long time, we decided to try a group tour with a bus and travel guide. A full inclusive program including the flights to and from Madrid, the bus tour and all accommodation and entry tickets. It was a good idea. You go to so many places that organizing this all on your own would have been a major exercise. What a journey.
MADRID
CORODOBA – MESETA
CADIZ
SEVILLA
SETENIL DE LAS BODEGAS
GRANADA – ALHAMBRA
TOLEDO
MADRID
My son Gerald lived with his family in Singapore for three years. A great opportunity to visit a place which might not have been so high on the bucket list. It was worthwhile every minute. Cambodia with its famos “Angkor Wat” was nearby and we included that venue.
Cambodia – Angkor Wat
I lived in the UK in Birmingham and Oxford from 1996 to 2002. I visited Scotland twice during that period. In 2012 it was time to go back with my wife Ingrid. Scotland has so much charm, charisma, history, culture, traditions, countrysides from another universe and much more. The attentive reader might discover, that I returned again in 2019.
We started in Edinburgh, took a rental car and went up north.We visited Inverness and Loch Ness, some coastal beaches, castles and a whisky distillery (Glen Fiddich). The detailed route and sequence of events has been lost in the fog of time 🙁
Day 1, 17.08.2012
Edinburgh
Day 2, 18.08.2012
Day 3, 19.08.2012
Day 4, 20.08.2012
Day 5, 21.08.2012
Day 6, 22.08.2012
Day 7, 23.08.2012
In the middle of 2011 we were not sure where to go for a holiday. Rather spontaneously we opted for a round trip through the middle of Italy: Apulia – Basilikata – Campania. We flew to Naples and got a rental car and headed eastwards.
Day 1, 17.08.2011
Canosa di Puglia and Castel del Monte.
Day 2, 18.08.2011
Towards Alberobello
Day 3, 19.08.2011
Martina Franka and Matera
Day 4, 20.08.2011
Amalfi coast
Day 5, 21.08.2011
Transit day
Day 6, 22.08.2011
Pompeji
Normally I am too stingy to take a tour guide. In this case the person which approached us was German speaking and quite a nice guy. We had no regrets, the opposite, we would not have gained that amount of insight.
Day 7, 23.08.2011
Isola Capri
Day 8, 24.08.2011
Capri – Napoli
In November 2010 Ingrid and I were invited to test drive an new model from the vehicle brand Chevrolet. They tend to choose attractive locations. This time it was Valencia in Spain and they stuck to their routine.
Day 1, 24.11.2010
From a first short stroll and bus tour.
Day 2, 25.11.2010
Day 3, 26.11.2010
Day 4, 27.11.2010
Not only for their pyramids Egypt is a fascinating topic but also for the exciting history of organizing the state around the periodic flooding of the Nile. I read that the Egyptians immigrated from the area of the Sahara desert which was a most fertile land and full with lots of wildlife long long time ago. But when the climate changed and dried up and eroded the land, the people were forced to look for new resources. They found it along the River Nile.
A few more mystical stories increased my fascination about Egypt. One is the connection between the people of Israel and them from the report of Jakob and his son Joseph and his 11 brothers. Joseph being sold to slave traders and progressing in Egypt from the prison the the first adviser to the Pharao.
The other one is of Pharao Amenhotep who declared the many gods of Egypt as obsolete and proclaimed a new “singular-God” faith. This god was represented by the sun (Amun) and one of his prayers could have been from the Bible. The priest cast had big problems with that new religion (similar to the Jewish priests who rejected Christ). After Amenhotep’s death they managed to reverse the Egyptian society back to the traditional gods. Amenhotep’s son was Tut-Ench-Amun, who died in his younger years.
So far so good. Now I would like to invite to our River-Nile-Cruse from one historic site to the next.
Day 1, 07.11.2010
Temple of Queen Hatschepsut
Transfers on the River Nile
Temple Ruins of Karnak and Luxor
Day 2, 08.11.2020
Day 3, 09.11.2010
Upstream to Dam of Assuan
Day 4, 10.11.2010
Abu Simbel
Day 5, 11.11.2010
The Pyramids
Day 6, 12.11.2010
Kairo
