At 66, I felt a bit like the father of the hiking community when I hiked around Mont Blanc earlier this fall. But the Tour du Mont Blanc is doable for any reasonably fit hiker, and there were plenty of people on the trail who were older than me. For total novices like Shelley and me, it’s wise to be proactive about health and safety. Here are some tips I learned along the way: Good boots, liner socks, slippery powder, and moleskin for tender skin are essential. We kind of became gear geeks — investing in good day bags…

Curious how we ended up searching for a new home on wheels? Check out the first blog in this series for the backstory. June 2024 Our eyes had landed on a tempting BJ45 listed on a European version of eBay, located near Strasbourg. If we were driving 550 kilometers (300 miles) to check it out, why not turn it into a mini road trip with a few fun stops along the way? Springtime was busy with sending off hundreds of books – Over Bruggen & Forever Off Track including some fabulous Landcruising Adventure T-shirts 1. The Tub Dream Our old…

A conversation with the Peruvian photographer whose dreamlike new book is the latest in a rich and truly original body of work that explodes the boundaries between documentary and art photography. To describe Musuk Nolte as a photojournalist may be accurate, but it misses the point. Embracing strategies of documentary and art photography to confront urgent social issues, his work explores the space between geography and dream, reality and myth. Alongside his award-winning photographic work, Nolte runs KWY Ediciones, an independent publishing platform he founded in 2013 that focuses on long-form, Latin American photography narratives. Nolte’s latest project, The Belongings…

Posted by Monique Kawecki on Friday, July 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment  WAKE UP IN LEONARDO DA VINCIʼS 15TH CENTURY VINEYARD. Situated metres away from Leonardo da Vinciʼs Last Supper, the Casa Degli Atellani invites guests into their 15th-century building whose grounds play host to a museum, the Atellani Apartment private residencies and La Vigna di Leonardo, a luscious vineyard planted and treasured by Leonardo da Vinci. In the late 1400s, da Vinci was gifted a hectare of land by the then Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, to thank him for his immense contribution to the city. The land…

All summer long, we’re putting together menu ideas to help make your trip planning easier! Every week we’ll share a new menu in our newsletter and on the site. This Week’s Menu Pro Tip: Many of these recipes have prep that can be done at home before your trip, saving you time at the campsite. Look for the * and then head to the “Prep Tips” section of this post! Find meat-free suggestions at the bottom of the page. Click the link to access the recipe post with all the tips and tricks for making it as well as the printable…

Home » Travel Tips » What It’s Really Like To Walk The Camino De Santiago: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Well, pilgrims start their day early. They wake up before sunrise and strap their boots to hit the trail before the world is up. Camino de Santiago is not just a walk. It is a lifestyle for many and a deeply personal journey. However, the pilgrimage isn’t reserved for the devout or the daring. It’s for anyone seeking a pause, purpose, or perhaps a little magic. Let us walk through a day in the life of a…

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  Today is a profoundly sad day. Russia’s aggressive action is heartbreaking for the death, suffering, and economic turmoil it will cause in Ukraine and, indirectly at least, beyond. Here at Rick Steves’ Europe, we hope that a diplomatic solution can be found and peace will return to that fragile and long-suffering part of our world. Our mission at RSE is to help Americans better know and understand our neighbors through travel. But when we bring travelers to another country, we also bring their dollars — dollars that would support Putin’s aggression. Therefore, as of today, we have canceled all…

It was with a sense of loss that we left the Land Cruiser behind on Cyprus last summer. Still numb from Coen’s brain cancer diagnosis (read about it here), and with him just out of the hospital – part of his head shaved, stitches crisscrossing where the tumor had been removed – we drove through Nicosia in a daze, on a goose chase from one office to the next. Two full days in forty-degree Celsius heat, stuck in unattractive, barren offices with no air conditioning (not that we have any in the Land Cruiser either), sorting out paperwork so the…

By helping farmers measure soil moisture with precision, a simple sensor is reducing waste, improving yields, and making agriculture more sustainable. RANDFONTEIN, South Africa — Patricia Seaba faced many challenges when she began farming. But few were as perplexing as the exploding cabbages. One moment, the plants seemed fine, cocooned snugly in their leaves, growing into the swirly purple and white heads that customers in suburban grocery stores couldn’t get enough of. The next, she was sitting in her living room when she heard a pop outside. When she got to the field, the cabbages “were bursting like balloons,” Seaba…