Montage Monday: Castle of Montjuic in Barcelona

One of the very first things I did when I got to Barcelona was take a cable car up to the castle of Montjuic (literally ‘Hill of the Jews’). I went not so much for the focus on the castle but for the gorgeous views of the city of Barcelona (my previous post features one […]

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Montage Monday: Hippos Sunbathing in Botswana

I learned on my first safari in Kenya a few years back that, while hippos may peep their head out of the water, they usually only get out of the water at night to look for food. It’s rare to see a hippo out of the water during the day. So when I saw this […]

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Montage Monday: Pringles Flavors Abound in SE Asia

In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia one evening, the rats decided to make an appearance on our walk home from dinner. At one point, Lauren and I were hugging each other in the middle of the street, screaming like school girls as the pesky rats darted around in search of food scraps. We ducked into a grocery […]

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Montage Monday: A Glimpse Back of Cape Town

As I stood at the water’s edge and looked back towards Cape Town I tried to imagine…. imagine what it was like being a prisoner on Robben Island, a person whose crime was most likely fighting for equal rights and defending freedom. Feeling trapped and wrongly imprisoned on an island, while tensions ran high back […]

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