Alps
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Not Just Skiing in Lech, Austria – Delighting in Après-Skiing too!
More Details: Not Just Skiing in Lech, Austria – Delighting in Après-Skiing too!Ahh, summertime… perfect time to reminisce about, what else? Winter! My time skiing in Lech, Austria to be more precise, fulfilling my dream to ski in the Alps. Yes, the warm, humid days of the Atlanta summer make me long for winter… Well, I have to say that it is not like we are in…
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Photo of the Week – The Alps of Transylvania
More Details: Photo of the Week – The Alps of TransylvaniaThis scene was what we were rewarded with after arriving at the Cabana Curmatura in the Transylvanian Alps in Romania and hiking on for another hour. I dream of returning to amazing Transylvania. Too bad people’s only notion of it is the legend of Dracula: there is SO much to enjoy and explore there!
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A Quick Switzerland Sampler Trip
More Details: A Quick Switzerland Sampler TripBack in the times when I lived in Paris, a fellow expat and I decided it would be a great idea to leave Paris a Friday afternoon and head down to Switzerland by car for the weekend. It was actually crazy and last minute but most definitely worthwhile, even if rushed. We realized we would…
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The Lake District in Austria
More Details: The Lake District in AustriaAs I sat waiting for my haircut today, I looked around for a magazine to read. Usually, these places don’t have anything I particularly want to read but lo and behold, there was a National Geographic Traveler magazine. I felt maybe these 5 minutes of waiting for my turn would at least be tolerable. An…
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A short happy life on the Tour de Mont Blanc (TMB)
More Details: A short happy life on the Tour de Mont Blanc (TMB)A guest post by Chris Sanders. Ok, I confess – this post has almost nothing in common with Hemingway‘s short story about Francis Macomber… and that’s probably a good thing! But I thought a “short happy life” was the best way to describe a recent adventure that ended all too soon… Last August, my wife Wendy and I…