About the Photo Above: Wandering the Streets of Brussels I love to wander; it is the first thing I do when arriving in a new place. I just grab my camera and armed with a traditional, old-school map, begin wandering around. The map is just for backup and has my[…]
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About the Photo Above: Mona Lisa in the Louvre Surprised? The Mona Lisa painting is really small, not much larger than an old vinyl album cover and its covered by glass and has a 10 foot parameter around it (along with a crowd of people). Lyon versus Paris I visited[…]
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About the Photo Above: Canals of Venice, Italy Visiting Venice for the first time was surreal seeing an entire city build on the water. Not only was it interesting from a engineering and architectural point of view, there was a certain romantic ambiance to the place (which is obviously why Italy,[…]
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About the Photo Above: Bled Island and Bled Castle The word picturesque hardly does justice to the beauty of Bled, Slovenia with its castle on a hill overlooking a reflective lake cradling an island in the middle upon which sits a story-book church. Swans swim the lake and wildlife runs[…]
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About the Photo Above: Not a Real Castle It looks like a real castle right? Turns out Vajdahunyad Castle is actually a replica of another castle and was built in 1896 as part of the Millennial Exhibition which celebrated the 1,000 years of Hungary since the Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in[…]
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