Travel - Share some pics and stories

marscrushinit

I love watching this thread 😊 ♥️. Thank you so much for sharing guys

firebombmarkus

@QueenMia I have never visited Germany. My brother and his girlfriend should start working there soon so I will have chances to visit in the future. I would also like to retire in Scandinavia 🤗 Thank you for sharing beautiful Scandinavian landscapes 😍

bearwithme

I love all the stories and pictures.  In answer to your guess @QueenMia Please see the photo below - it gives the location away  (Hawaii - island of Oahu)

QueenMia

@bearwithme - Hawaii 😍 Never been, but would love to! You have to tell us more about that trip now 😉

I was in Madrid and Toledo this weekend and here are some pics... very nice weather, perfect weekend! What have you guys been up to?

bearwithme

@QueenMia - beautiful - thank you for sharing the pictures.  I especially love the glass gazebo with the sculpture in the middle. That's one of the things I miss about living in Europe - it's so easy to travel to other countries and places over a long weekend.   I actually lived in Hawaii 3 different times (since I was in the Navy) but recently was there for a little while for work.
This weekend I went to Natural Bridge Caverns, a cave system not too far from my house.

firebombmarkus

Hi @QueenMia I love those pictures and I love beautiful Hawaii @bearwithme The previous weekend I went with my brother, his girlfriend and a friend on a daily trip to visit monasteries in the south of our country. So here are some pictures for you below. I am not too much religious but I was always amazed by the peace and the nature they are surrounded by. It's also astonishing to think about the history they have, about kings and queens that have built them in respect of saints. 

bearwithme

Thank you for sharing your pictures @firebombmarkus - I especially love the dome on the church.

firebombmarkus

Yeah, it's beautiful @bearwithme There is more to share. I couldn't do it today due to bad connection but I will to try to upload more now 😊

bearwithme

What a truly beautiful setting. Thank you for the additional pictures @firebombmarkus
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QueenMia

That looks really nice, @firebombmarkus - Love the green all around!!

@bearwithme, that cave looks great! Is it big?! It reminds me of some caves in Halong Bay. 
Where have you lived in Europe then?  

bearwithme

@QueenMia - I would say it is a medium cave system 180 feet below ground.  There are two different sets of caves that they have explored and opened to the public (with paths and steps).  Definitely not as big as Carlsbad caverns in New Mexico.  I have lived in London twice (once with my parents and once in the military), The Netherlands (Schinnen), Naples Italy and Stuttgart, Germany.    But I have spent a lot of time traveling throughout Europe for fun and work (including a 13 day cruise on the Hurtigruten Midnight Sol where we went up and down the coast of Norway and traveled above the Arctic circle) 

QueenMia

Hey @bearwithme, I too lived in London for a few years! Which area where you living in? You've lived in some nice places... and very different from each others! Do you have any favourite? 

I would love to go on that cruise too, it must have been wonderful 😍 Any pics, maybeee?! Hehe! 

Have you ever seen Northern lights? I've see them from the plane while landing in Iceland but that was it... Aiming to catch some next winter! 

BabyBluz

Thank all of you for sharing your pics. I haven't had a vacation in 20 years and have never had the opportunity to travel outside the United States.  Your pics have been beautiful and remind me that there is a whole wide world waiting for me to explore someday!

marscrushinit

I could agree more with you @BabyBluz well said 😊. I love to look at this thread ! Welcome to the community too 🤗

( I love your photography btw @QueenMia you're very talented 😊)

bearwithme

@QueenMia - I've lived in West Kensington and also in Kew Gardens.  I especially loved my ground floor flat across the street from the Gardens.  I got an annual pass and pretended they were my gardens. 🤣😂  London is my favorite city.

I have seen a version of the Northern lights in Michigan once (sheets of white shimmering across the sky) but none of the beautiful colorful displays you get from Iceland and the Scandinavian countries in the winter. 

Welcome to the community @BabyBluz.  There is definitely a lot of awesome things to see and do out there in the world.  I hope you get the opportunity to get out there and explore.  It's pretty easy to get a Eurail pass and explore a lot of Europe that way and sometimes there are some pretty great airfare offers too.

I don't have pictures from the Norway cruise readily available but  here are some pictures from two National Parks in New Mexico, USA (Tent Rocks and Bandelier National Parks).