Deep in the Small Cold valley, resting at the edge of a cirque, Teryho chata has been weathering the abrupt summer storms and blinding winter blizzards of High Tatras for more than a century. Built in 1899, by the Hungarian Carpathian Association, this mountain refuge was named after the doctor…

The forecast said it was going to snow, and indeed, thick flakes had started to fall with the first light of the day. I was looking at them slowly drifting down, layering the dark cobblestone outside the window, thinking what I should do next. …

Bratislava has an array of excellent museums and galleries to visit, but the most prominent, in my opinion, is actually a few kilometers outside the Slovakian capital, where the borders of Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria meet. …

Every year, the missus and I try to tick off at least one summit from our bucket list. Last time, since we love the High Tatras, we decided to go for Gerlakovsky-Slovakia’s highest peak. But life is what happens to us while making other plans, and as we were organizing…

Sure, your phone is capable of taking pretty good photos, but are you always happy with them, or do they leave you wanting something more? The fact that manufacturers have made great leaps during last years means that there is so much more potential to be extracted from phone photography…

Is it better to invest in a flagship phone or a photo camera? — It’s quite a dilemma and the fact that both devices have improved greatly in the past few years, doesn’t make the choice easier. Let me say in advance that if you never watch your images outside your phone or tablet then the answer in no, you don’t need anything more…

Dunquin If a distillation came out of Ireland — its pure essence concentrated in a single place, that would be Dunquin. The next parish to America, as they used to call it, is the most western village of the Irish mainland, right on the tip of Dingle peninsula where the prolific…

Deep in the heart of Greece, at the north western edge of the fertile Thessalian plain, is a place of mystical awe and medieval mystery. Meteora is the plural of a Greek adjective meaning “hovering above ground.” This word perfectly describes a number of monasteries that are built on the…

Epirus — rightfully called the “infinite country” since ancient times; Got its epithet because of its mountains which row after row dominate the land making it seem endless. Zagori is hidden in the heart of this isolated region in northwestern Greece. — Its forty six villages, called Zagorochoria are nested between these mountains which along with gorges, forests and rivers form one of the most pristine and radiant natural areas left in Europe. Part of the greater mountain range of Pindus which starts from south Albania and crosses the border, running the…