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Amsterdam at 52 degrees North latitude places the Dutch capital at a more northerly location than any state in the USA, except Alaska. Visiting in late December means fewer than 8 hours between sunrise around 8:45am and sunset around 4:30pm. Chances are the sky will be cloudy and gray, but when the sun shines the…
Yesterday I flew Aegean Airlines from Chania, Crete to Athens and Athens to Warsaw with window seats on both flights. Something I was surprised to learn a couple years ago is the file information on photos taken with my iPhone provides locational information even when the phone airplane mode is turned on. Open map link…
Krakow was the capital city of the Kingdom of Poland from 1069 to 1596, when King Sigismund III Vasa moved the royal court to Warsaw and that city became the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Unlike Warsaw, devastated by World War II, Krakow came through World War II minimally damaged. The Nazi government established Krakow as its…
Flying British Airways London LHR to San Francisco in late June 2017 meant I was flying over Greenland at a latitude a few hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle. It was probably around 4pm local time in Greenland as the plane flew over the southwest coast. After watching two inflight movies and eating dinner,…
The idea for this post came to me after reading a comment about the neighborhood view from my hotel room at Ramada Sofia looking depressing. Bulgaria is a poor country, one of the poorest in Europe. There are some great shopping deals, some interesting and old architecture, and a culture to experience interacting with people…
Sitting in Auckland at 4:30am on a Sunday morning and I have to pack and leave for the airport in one hour. I depart Auckland for Sydney at 8:30am and arrive in San Francisco at 9:30am Sunday. There is a 21 hour time difference between Auckland and California, meaning I arrive back to the USA…
Copenhagen is a flat sea-level port city on the eastern side of Denmark. Denmark ranks at or near the top around the world for bicycle-friendly city and bicycle as primary transportation. Watch out for those cobblestone trips! Walking is a safer way for me to travel when taking photos with my camera. That’s the way…
Amsterdam is famous for dead artists. Rembrandt to Van Gogh (historic artists), Herman Brood to Sylvia Kristel and Van Gogh again (modern artists). Riches and poverty, fame and obscurity, suicide, disease and assassination ended lives made famous with their art in Amsterdam. Debra Hill’s shop is located in a small booth beneath some of the…
Talking to my mom on the phone in Albuquerque this weekend, I could tell this was a great vacation for my parents and sisters. She raved about the Holiday Inn Express and Suites Albuquerque Airport being one of the best service-oriented hotels in the brand. Their trip to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 2014 using hotel…
VFM Leonardo is a technology and online media company for the global hospitality industry. Recently the company published an article based on its research of what images hotel travelers want to see when shopping for a property to stay: The Top 10 Hotel Images Travel Shoppers Want to See (Oct 16, 2013). Hotel photography is…
