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Traveler’s Lense: Lisbon
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Patagonia Road Trip
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No matter how often I travel or how many trips I make in any given year, I look forward to each and every journey with a sense of anticipation. Even when returning to a familiar destination, I always find there’s something new to discover – a restaurant that wasn’t there before, a hidden cove with sandy beach that I’d overlooked, or perhaps a well-known attraction that I simply hadn’t had time to take in last time around. Each time I begin my packing ritual, butterflies set in. These are not butterflies of anxiety or fear; these are the excited and happy breed, eagerly anticipating a whole new adventure. And what is a trip without pictures? Photography is a part of my journey to see the world in a new way and share that vision with you.
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Patagonia Road Trip
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star-riddled sky and snarled grasses dwarf the rider on the steppe as his horse closes the gap on the horizon. In South America’s southern frontier, nature, long left to its own devices, grows wild, barren and beautiful. Spaces are large, as are the silences that fill them. For those who come here, an encounter with such emptiness can be as awesome as the sight of jagged peaks, pristine rivers and dusty backwater oases.
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The paving of Ruta Nacional tv (RN 40) is well under way, but it remains among the world’s loneliest stretches, a spellbinding road to nowhere that has stirred affection in personalities as disparate as Butch Cassidy and Bruce Chatwin. On the eastern seaboard, RN 3 shoots south, connecting oil boomtowns with the remains of ancient petrified forests, Welsh settlements and the spectacular Peninsula Valdes. The map will tell you that Patagonia is a very large place, but motoring its distant horizons offers a whole other level of insight.
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Traveler’s Lense
Belem Spread across steep hillsides that overlook the Rio Tejo as bright yellow trams wind their way through curvy tree-lined streets. Gothic cathedrals, majestic monasteries and quaint museums are all part of the colourful cityscape, but the real delights of discovery lie in wandering the narrow lanes of Lisbon’s lovely backstreets.
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Alfama Village-life gossip in old Alfama is exchanged at the public baths or over fresh bread and wine at tiny patio restaurants as fadistas (proponents of fado, Portugal’s traditional melancholic singing) perform in the background.
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The Greek Cyclades
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he Greek islands to dream about; sun-kissed outliers of rock and dappled earth lying scattered across the glittering Aegean Sea. Their characteristic white cubist houses, golden beaches, olive groves, pine forests, herb-strewn mountain slopes and terraced valleys make for an irresistible mix.
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23° The beaches of Mykonos, Santorini and Ios are awash with sun-lounger society and raucous diversions; their main towns seethe with commercialism. All of this has its appeal, but other islands, such as Andros, Amorgos and Sifnos, have kept tourism to a more sedate scale.
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The Insider Guide Palau de la Música Catalana This concert hall is a high point of Barcelona’s Modernista architecture, a symphony in tile, brick, sculpted stone and stained glass. The palau, like a peacock, shows off much of its splendour on the outside. Take in the principal facade with its mosaics and the richly colourful auditorium with its ceiling of blue-and-gold stained glass and shimmering skylight.
The area is popular with artists and a generally bohemian crowd, it also has a high ethnic population and the highest concentration of foreign restaurants in Barcelona. Plaça de Sol is the most renowned area of the neighbourhood, it’s lined with terrace cafes and at night this is where the people convene to drink.
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If you’re looking for an awesome view of Barcelona, you can’t miss the Bunker del Carmel. Located in the upper part of the mountain Turo de la Rovira, this place was transformed during the civil war by the construction of some bunkers made to protect the city.
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Barcelona Long considered one of the city’s most important hospitals, and recently repurposed. Its various spaces becoming cultural centres, offices and something of a monument. The complex, including 16 pavilions is lavishly decorated and each pavilion is unique.
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