Category: Europe
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Port de Cassis
Cassis, Sud de France, La Méditerranée. Fresh. Vibrant. That blue. The cicadas never stop singing. Smells like a blend of pastries and flowers. Looks like several buckets of paint exploded. I didn’t feel sad when we left, couldn’t feel sad, because I can’t imagine never returning. I always come back. It’s such a part of me…
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Lviv
My last day in Lviv & it’s light. On my own, an open-ended exploration. No working phone, no plan. I climbed the hill on the outskirts for the view, an attempt to contain all I had seen in just one image. I went inside the stores, crossed the street for them. There was no rush. …
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Lviv
A slow day in Lviv, unplanned, unrushed, falling in step with the city. Lunch in a hidden greenhouse garden. A tower ascent and a view. A stroll through the park, a bench in the sun. Lost sense of time. That’s how the day passed. Fast-slow. Suspended with nothing to be beyond there.
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Lviv
Lviv, Ukraine – a secret hidden in plain sight from the West. It’s modern, charming, clean, bright, busy. A few weeks prior, I wasn’t even aware of it’s existence, and now there I was, walking the streets. Ate, drank, wandered, lived. Every cafe, it seemed, had a theme. There was music echoing through the streets.…
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Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh, Suffolk coast gem of fish-and-chips fame. We came for the seafood, like so many others, all spilled on to the sidewalk in queues around the block. Fish-and-chips on the seawall. Old fishing boats in an old fishing town. A day out, close to home.
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Suffolk
Dreamscape, somewhere in Suffolk. Fields of green, flowers on the beach. A long countryside walk to the sea. Follow the footpath a few miles east until the heath fades into the beach. That’s the only way I know how to go back.
exploring & escapades 