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Cats of the Peloponnese

  Next time you’re lucky enough to visit Athens, consider a day trip to a few truly remarkable historic sites, Mycenae and Epidaurus. Even if you’re not well-versed in Classical Greek history, there’s enough visual scenery alone to make this visit a worthwhile trip back in time. And as a huge added bonus, cats — […]

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Tips for Taking Photos at Night

Whether you’re shooting cats, buildings or people, shooting photos at night can be particularly challenging. Your smartphone camera is good and there’s no question most photos look great on that bright little screen when you turn the phone around and check out your work. The problem is when you expand that photo to full size […]

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Our Top 5 Favorite Cats*

*Other than the 5 we live with at home. It’s almost like trying to pick a favorite kid. We’ve met hundreds, if not thousands, of cats over the years as we’ve traveled throughout Europe and we have fond memories of all of them.  It’s true we’ve never come across a mean cat in our travels, thank […]

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Do this one thing for a better trip

Whether you’re planning your 1st trip to Europe or your 21st, if you do this one simple thing you’re almost guaranteed to have a more positive experience during your next visit, especially if you plan on using different cities as hubs and arranging day trips. Sounds too good to be true, but it’s actually a […]

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Cruising Pros and Cons

It took us 30+ years of travel together before we booked a European cruise. We had taken a few Bahamas/Mexico cruises, but those are a different type of vacation, not really about the destination, but more about the shipboard experience. Europe, at least for us, is all about the cities and sites and a cruise […]

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Best Point and Shoot Travel Cameras

Even though it sometimes seems that cameras are on their way out – forced into antiquity by the outstanding performance of most modern camera smartphones, there are still a lot of good reasons for the every day traveler to bring a solid, dependable point and shoot camera with them on holiday. What price range depends […]

Order Canvas Prints

  Choose Order canvas prints, posters and framed prints directly by clicking on the image tabs below. We can also print any original photograph on our site that doesn’t include a recognizable person (which is at our discretion) even if it’s not on this page. Just send us a message with the photo information (what page, […]

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Kotor, Montenegro – City of Cats

Cat Rating – Scale of 1 – 5 Kotor, Montenegro, the “City of Cats”. You would think this would be a slam dunk, all-time favorite for cat worshipers, but we had mixed emotions about our time there. It gets a “5 cat” rating, but definitely with some reservations. It started off beautifully. Our arrival to […]