Miradouro de Santa Catarina

Miradouro de Santa Catarina

Photo: Marco Crupi / Shutterstock.com 4.6 stars/ Open until 11:30pmAlms for Saint Anthony: I’ve lost my wallet three times in this city and it has always come back. Green leather clutch purchased in 2017 from a Coach outlet in New Orleans. The most recent time, I am...
Miradouro do Monte Agudo

Miradouro do Monte Agudo

Photo by Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 4.6 stars/ Closes at 22:00Antidote to burnout: Stop working. Tell your friends to stop working. Hold the sun between your index finger and thumb. Lick the salt off of chips. Stay up to watch the sunrise and...
The Butter Museum

The Butter Museum

Photo: D. Ribeiro / Shutterstock.com Otis and Mila left Kenmare to traverse clockwise around the Ring of Kerry an hour later than planned. Mila had marked five stops along the route on Google maps before they left the United States. Sneem, Caherdaniel, Portmagee,...
The Golden Jester

The Golden Jester

I knew it inside out – the baroque castle Schönbrunn with its waving angels on the roof, and the castle gardens with their straight paths and sharply cut hedges. I knew the crunching sound made when the little pebbles rubbed against my shoes when I walked towards the...
A Tuesday at Lake Balaton

A Tuesday at Lake Balaton

Photo by nikolpetr / Shutterstock.com The swan wakes at dawn and finds herself by the beach. There is a small wooden bridge that leads to a blue floating pontoon dock. Reed beds frame the beach and filter its water. Algae in the undercurrent colors the lake a green...
Off the Hole of Death

Off the Hole of Death

Photo by Flausa123, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Have you ever seen two lovers being hounded down by Death? Go to Arkadiko Bridge on a Blood Moon night, and as clear as you can see this hand of mine in front of your eyes, you will see two embracing silhouettes...