Today, Martina, at Dreaming & Wandering honored me by nominating me for Thomas Cook’s Explore the Elements photo competition. The challenge is to capture through pictures the essence of four elements – Earth, Water, Fire and Air. I only had a few hours to go through my archives and sumit my entries before the competition closed, [...]
Étiquette : travel
9 Things I Can’t Do when I Travel
(scroll down for the english version - voyez plus bas pour la version française) Hace unas semanas descubrí Escapadas Blog, la página de viajes de Xavi y Joana. Son españoles y cuentan de sus destinos favoritos en su país, así como en otros lugares que les encantaron. Además, sacan fotos hermosísimas, para que quedemos más atraidos [...]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry
This week's challenge: Symmetry. Last week-end, I spent a few hours away from Paris, hopping on the fast train back to Marseille, in the south of France, to enjoy my god-daughter's synchronized swimming exams (which she suceeded easily!) and baking a chocolate cake together. Don't we pose wonderfully symmetrical?!? 😀 Inspired by the Dailypost page. [...]
Postcard Mural Project update
In August 2012, I showed you that big white wall standing naked in the house in Merida, Mexico, and asked friends, family, fellow readers, couchsurfers, to help adorn it with postcards from all over the world. While I have tried to keep sending postcards during my trips in spite of the speed of technology and [...]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
This week's challenge: Scale. Someone we love back home in Mexico, but who couldn't travel with us, got us the fluffy toy with which we had to take pictures everywhere we went. That one at Machu Picchu, Peru, is one of the best shots we got, duh! More "Scale" were also obviously found in the [...]