Travels with Tricia

Category: Outdoors

  • Hiking to Greece’s Majestic Meteora Monasteries

    The monasteries of Meteora, Greece offer an impressive blend of natural and human-made beauty. Incredibly, some of these Eastern-Orthodox monasteries have crowned the tops of Meteora’s otherworldly rock formations for more than 700 years. Monks who were trying to escape persecution originally built 24 monasteries in this part of central Greece. Over the centuries, weather…

  • The Perfect Skopje Excursion: Exploring North Macedonia’s Matka Canyon

    Though I love the energy and cultural offerings characteristic of large cities, I’m most at home in natural settings. During my childhood, I’d go “on safari” in my backyard, passing away hours hiking and hunting for fossils and critters. It comes as no surprise, then, that during our travels to North Macedonia’s capital city, Skopje, I…

  • Photo du Jour: Spring Blooms – Keukenhof Gardens, the Netherlands

    In celebration of spring’s return here in Croatia, (and hopefully soon for those of you in chillier climes), I share this image from my photo archives, taken at the magnificent Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands.

  • Foraging for Wild Asparagus in Croatia’s Dalmatian Countryside

    When spring returns to Croatia, residents do what they’ve done for centuries: take to the fields and forests in search of wild asparagus, known in Croatian as šparoga. The asparagus-hunting season has just begun here in central Dalmatia, and last weekend, we were lucky enough to be invited by Croatian friends to go foraging for…

  • Sailing the Adriatic: A Day Trip from Trogir, Croatia

    As our new friend’s sailboat, Jonathan III, powered itself away from the marina, I watched as the city of Trogir faded off into the distance, blending in with the sparkling blue horizon of the Adriatic. With each second, the 2,300 year-old town looked more and more like a tiny, medieval Lego land.

  • Cross country ski tracks cut through the snow in Oberammergau, Germany. Forested mountains are overhead.

    Oberammergau, Germany: Snowy Vignettes from an Alpine Paradise

    Having “escaped” winter by spending five wonderful, but scorching months in Southeast Asia and India last year, I must admit—it’s been a bit of a shock wintering in the German Alps these past months. Fortunately, there are the visual elements that make sidewalk slips, shoveling, and shivering so worthwhile: chalets peeking out from under snow…