by Bierka
“I do not envy God’s paradise because I am so satisfied to live in Sicily.“ Federico II, Holy Roman Emperor, and King of Sicily *** There’s nothing better than staring at nature and her babies. Whatever she has given birth to immediately sucks me in and makes my eyeballs fixed on it. Etna was no …
“I travel because seeing photos in brochures wasn’t good enough for me. It was to be there, that was everything.”Wiremu Ratcliffe *** Visiting Melk was a short 3 or 4-hour trip in April. The town itself is very small, but the main thing that functions as a magnet for tourists is its huge Baroque Abbey …
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” John Muir *** Even though I grew up near The Stolowe Mountains National Park, this was my first trip to, let’s call it, “real” mountains. Kuba and I went there at …