Category: travel series
Art & Architecture on Naoshima 直島, Japan
Chris spent a full day on Naoshima 直島 to see its contemporary art installations and museums. This is the first of a series of posts on this trip. Naoshima Naoshima is a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea 瀬戸内海. The Seto Inland Sea lies between three of the four main islands of Japan (Honshu,…
Looking back at our trips in 2023, Part 2
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog in January to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. We were in Asia and Australia – read Part 1 is here. Enjoy some tunes and see where else we went in 2023. Click ▶ to…
Looking back at our trips in 2023, Part 1
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. Let’s kick off with some tunes by Australian artists (4 songs) and see where we went in 2023. Click ▶ to play Because of our move to a…
Road Trip from Lausanne to Tuscany – First stop: Turin (Torino)
After the pandemic faded in Europe, we took a road trip from Lausanne (in Switzerland, where we lived) to Tuscany. The 2-week long round trip took us across the Alps, south to the Mediterranean Sea where we made stops along the Ligurian coast before heading inland towards Tuscany. The towns where we stayed overnight were…