In My Back Yard

I just returned from 3.5 months in Europe. I was fortunate to spend several weeks traveling on my own from Ljubljana Slovenia to London, then to Prague, Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest and Venice. All in all an amazing trip but it left my travel budget quite thin. Add to it the price of gas and I find myself looking for alternate themes for travel. Enter “In My Back Yard”.

We all know there are places, around the corner, down the street or in the next town that we keep meaning to visit and only do so when we have out of town guests. So, if there are places we know, there must be a few we don’t, that are worth seeing.

Now, this type of plan has some constraints. Depending on where you live there can be an abundance or dearth of sites. I’m based in a town of 1600 people, exactly zero actual stoplights (but one blinking light), one town historic museum, one public library, one pub, one pizza place and a whole lot of trees. So the idea of picking the best of the best of really doesn’t work here. We do have great history, architecture and once and former residents though.

Looking around through one eye of a resident and one of a tourist, in order to discover a hidden gem or two. A bit of history, art, food and culture, all in my backyard.

Consolidation???

So after days, weeks, months and now years of having a scattered internet presence I am gathering everything here. For a while it was necessary to keep food writing in one place, travel in another and musings in yet another but as of today all will be collected here. I have endeavored to maintain the date/time of the original post at its original location more as a housekeeping and organization step than anything else.

So if you haven't checked the archives now would be a great time to do so. You never know what you might find.