Bill's Excellent Adventures

Selfie-free travel photo highlights and tips from explorations around the world.

Sri Lanka (#5)

July 18, 2018

Kites at sunset over Colombo's Galle Face green.
Last year my extensive trip around the island hit the key destinations. (See my highlights here.)  But I'm still infatuated with Sri Lanka so

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Rhône Valley ~ France

July 01, 2018

Château de Grignan, a medieval castle turned into a Renaissance palace, on the hilltop above the little village of Grignan and its lavender fields.

Goals:
  1. See the south of France

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Cabo Verde

June 25, 2018

Sunset on Cabo Verde's Fogo Island.

After exploring three Canary Islands, we left the EU and flew much farther south to the country of Cabo Verde, our final Macaronesian archipelago.

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Canary Islands

June 15, 2018

Moss-covered laurel trees and geranium at Garajonay Park in La Gomera.
The Canary Islands are officially, in Spanish, "Islas Canarias" or informally just "the Canaries."

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Madeira

June 10, 2018

The most spectacular view in Madeira was of the Ponta de São Lourenço.

Like the Azores, the Madeira archipelago is an Autonomous Region in Portugal and also has fewer than 300,000 residents.

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Azores

June 05, 2018

One of many arresting Azores vistas on São Miguel island.

We visited the most populated four of the lush green nine islands of the Azores. Each was unique but all had several great things in common:

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Macaronesia

May 30, 2018


Until last year, I'd never heard the word "Macaronesia" to describe the four clusters of islands in the eastern side of the North Atlantic.

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Italy ~ Amalfi Coast

May 27, 2018

Rain in Ravello with Caroline.

Based at a modest agriturismo farm in San Lazarro, I joined a dozen nice Brits for hikes around the Amalfi Coast.

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