While i would have never turned down and opportunity to photograph Europe, I had no burning desire to do so — until my old Colombian friend Luz found me on Facebook in early 2023, shortly after I retired from 27 years teaching journalism at Indiana University.
Since I last saw them in 1976, she and sisters Estella and Patricia had relocated to Austria and Spain.
Luz invited me to visit. And in October that year, I spent three weeks with them traveling through Austria, Italy, Slovenia, and Spain, launching what has since become my Retirement Travel Trifecta.
PHOTO ALBUMS
SPAIN: Monte Arabí, UNESCO World Cultural Site, Yecla, Spain
SPAIN – Yecla, Mirador del Santuario del Castillo, Paso de la Bandera,
Basílica de la Purísima Concepción
ITALY – Venice and Venice Only
ITALY – Trieste, Miramare Castle, James Joyce,
ITALY – Duino, Rainer Maria Rilke Thinking Path
SLOVENIA – Bovec, Soca River, Kanal, Smartno
ITALY – Lake Predil, Predil Pass Batery, Palmanova, Grado
AUSTRIAN ALPS – Villach, Klagenfurt,
Lake Worthersee, Pyramidenkogel Tower
BLOGS
Italy and Slovenia: Following History and the Soča River Valley
Through the Mountains to the Sea
An Undreamed Trip to the Austrian Alps
