Tag Archives: Culture

Central America’s hidden & stunning Caribbean Coast Pt.3 Post pic

Central America’s hidden & stunning Caribbean Coast Pt.3 Bay Islands Honduras.

Just off Honduras’s north coast on the Caribbean Sea and clearly visible from the mountainous mainland there are a group of the three large islands, Utila, Roatan, and Guanaja, and the smaller islands, or island groups, St. Helena, Barbareta, Morat, and, closest to the mainland, the two Hog Islands (Cayos Cochinos). Divers flock to backpacker […]

Weekend Cabin Series #5 Post pic

A Cabin For My Weekend! #5

The Stone House, Fafe, Portugal Note to self: If you ever build a weekend cabin, don’t make it so unique that it becomes a tourist attraction. In 1974, Vítor Rodrigues built a family retreat in the Fafe Mountains of Portugal by connecting a series large glacial erratics with stone and mortar. It has become so […]

Poland's Woodstock Festival the craziest of them all Post pic

Woodstock Festival Kostrzyn-upon-Odra River, Poland

The small Polish border town of Kostrzyn-nad-Odra its home to the Woodstock Station rock festival. held along a forest road towards a military base on its outskirts, the throbbing roar of guitars beyond the forest can be heard, believing I was in for a night of testosterone-induced aggression. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The […]

Weekend Cabin Series #3

A Cabin For My Weekend! #3

Sauvie Island, Oregon. This tiny, 540-square-foot house is in its fourth incarnation. In the early in 1940s, it was hastily erected to provide shelter to shipyard workers in Portland, Oregon, in a settlement called Vanport Village. In 1948, floods swept through Vanport and this structure was floated down the Columbia River to an island called […]

The Walled City of Dubrovnik

The Walled City of Dubrovnik

  Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast of Croatia, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Its total population is 42,615 (census 2011). In 1979, […]

Gratifying graffiti in Paris

I’ve seen two of these graffiti murals in Paris once, one of them is no longer there. Some were amazing work of art in their own sense even if art collectors don’t think they have any value. To me they have amazing social value and impressive message. This one includes an awesome mix of nature […]