Tales and Travel

15/03/2024

Happy New Year. Wishing you joy, serenity, good health and good times.
Another seascape. This one from Ospedaletti, Italy, on a cloudy, windy day. I enjoyed a wonderful lunch there with friends.

18/12/2023

Read about Germany’s Merry Christmas Markets: www.talesandtravel.com

05/11/2023

04/11/2023

We have big winds and waves and even surfers on the Med— beach at the bottom of big hill where I live. Can’t compare with Nazarre, nonetheless it’s exciting to watch,

08/11/2022

Seaside treat in Camporoso, Italy.

03/10/2022

Beautiful Budapest and the stunning Parliament. See more of the grand city on the Danube, www.talesandtravel.com

24/09/2022

The mighty Dolomites. For more photos and info, see www.talesandtravel.com

24/09/2022

After rain clouds

18/08/2022

My Kind of Hotel, a little piece of paradise in Aix les Bains, France. Read all about it,
and the hotel’s distinguished residents, chickens.
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07/08/2022

Delicacies in the Dolomites: 10 different kinds of Grappa and Apple Strudel

04/08/2022

Testing the waters…and strange treatments
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03/08/2022

The Dolomites.

24/06/2022

Clouds over my mountain. Always changing.

30/01/2022

“I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. ” That is exactly the way I felt during a September visit to Lago di Como (Lake Como) in northern Italy. It is sublime. Glittering waters at the feet of Alpine mountain ranges. Adorable postcard-perfect villages with cobbled alleys and flowered promenades. Baroque villas and impeccably manicured gardens.
Bellissimo Lago di Como: www.talesandtravel.com

28/08/2021

I had visions of an empty Venice, like those I had seen during the lockdown. Deserted alleys and waterways. No gondolas on the canals. No lines to enter attractions, such as San Marco (St. Mark’s Basilica). A dolphin or two frolicking in the Grand Canal. That was then. Fast forward to early July when I visited. Even though travel restrictions were in place, tourists had returned to Venice....

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I had visions of an empty Venice, like those I had seen during the lockdown. Deserted alleys and waterways. No gondolas on the canals. No lines to enter attractions, such as San Marco (St. Mark’s B…