Tag: nature

Photos from my March 2023 trip to New Zealand’s South Island

In the beginning of March 2023, I took my best friend to the South Island of New Zealand as a celebration of 20 years of friendship. Though we flew into Auckland (on the North Island), we took the next flight to Queenstown, which is quite far south on the South Island. We then rented a …

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Photos from my October 2022 trip to Germany and Switzerland

These days it seems like there simply isn’t enough time in the day. Though my trip to Germany and Switzerland was in October of 2022, I haven’t had time to post some of the photos here on my blog. I’m not going to go through the whole trip, or post all the photos that I …

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Austria Day 9: Maribor Slovenia’s Oldest Vine Harvest and Weingut Tement

Today we woke up extra early (before the sun had even peaked over the mountain crest) to depart Hallstatt for Maribor, Slovenia. The reason for getting up before the rooster’s crow is that it’s a special day in Maribor—the annual Harvest Festival of the oldest grape vine in the world. We started out for the …

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