Climbing Mount Everest the hard way!
Mount Everest. Touring Kathmandu and Patan yesterday was surprisingly interesting and exotic. However, the main purpose of our trip to Nepal was to go up Mount Everest. Since Kathmandu is already at an elevation of 4,600 feet, we only had another 25,000 feet or so to climb to reach the summit. I had been warned…
Austria, land of drop-dead gorgeous Alpine settings!
Austria. Read our previous country posting: “Australia, a continent full of wonders!” COUNTRY ROLL No 11 : Austria, land of Imperial Vienna and drop-dead gorgeous Alpine settings! Photo @DiscoveryImages Read our related posting: “Best of Austria food: the Wiener Schnitzel!” Read our next country posting: “Azerbaijan, land of fire!” Stay tuned to BonVoyageurs.com…
Basel ~ For the love of Art, History & Gastronomy
BASEL, for the love of Art, History, & Gastronomy For years the Swiss city of Basel has been closely associated in my mind with two famous and fabulous exports, Art Basel and Roger Federer. If you are an art connoisseur, you know of the first export, and if you love tennis, you are for sure a…
Puerto Vallarta – An Authentic Mexican Paradise
We first discovered Puerto Vallarta in the early 1980’s when my husband and I were living in Puebla, Mexico. It had become famous, or perhaps I should say “infamous”, during John Huston’s 1963 filming of The Night of the Iguana in Mismaloya, a small village just south of Puerto Vallarta. Thanks to the steamy romance of…
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