How much can one travel
Since I was seriously inactive the past days due to bad weather and needing to work, because work is what keeps us living the way we do and that's mostly where the travel money come from, I started wondering what keeps other people on the road, how much do they travel at once and for how long.
As I'm writing this, I'm also doing some research for the post at hand, but it shall start with my own example.
What keeps me on the road?
Besides the obvious, like pleasure, passion, hobby, the most important thing I find is the money for gas and lodging. If you can't get where you want to go you clearly have a problem; and than if you can't find a place or afford a place to sleep, a tent is not always viable, so that is also a big problem. In a few words, money keep me on the road.
But there is also a second, weather. Weather is very important for travel, if the weather is bad the roads can get impracticable, if you are driving on bad weather the tired get even more tired, you need more time to get to your destination and when you are there, you either can't properly visit it, you may not be able to visit at all some of the interest points you desire to see and your photographs will not turn out quite as perfect as you'd want them to turn out.
How long am I on the road?
So far this year, a lot, but it was very strongly segmented. We were on the road in Spring, for about two weeks, to Romania, it was ok but busy and did not get to do so much as we wanted to. Than we started going here and there on weekends. How much did we cover ? A lot. On weekends we managed to visit Paris, Versailles, Verdun and Metz in France. Nürnberg, Fürth, Blaubeuren, Triberg and various other places in Germany, from which the most impressive was Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the south of Germany, with the highest german village with its own church, called Wamberg. Also from Garmisch we took the mountain train and the cable cabin to reach Zugspitze, the highest peak in Germany, at 2962m.
I guess answering the question is not easy, but as long as weather is nice and the days are free and the money is there to cover the costs, we're on the road.
Amazing photography – China’s Desertification
I was reading Resolve and stumbled upon this blog entry called "Editing on the road helps focus long photo stories". It's a very worthy watch and the photos and the story are amazing.
The work belongs to Sean Gallagher a photojournalist living and working in China, who won a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in February for his work on the country’s desertification.
No need for much more text from me, just head over to this link here China's Growing Sands and watch the video and read the entry.
Vienna-Austria-II
As promised in Vienna part I, here is part two of the recent Vienna trip post series. I'm not going to write too much, best to just put forth the photographs I took. Hope you enjoy.
Belvedere
There are in fact two palaces on the Belvedere grounds and they lie in the middle of a splendid park. These were constructed by the famous Baroque architect J.L. von Hildebrandt, for Prince Eugene of Savoy .
Vienna Clock museum
This tiny finger sized clock above is the worlds smallest pendulum clock!
Spanish riding school night shot
As advertised by the school, "the Spanish Riding School in Vienna is the only institution in the world which has practiced for over 430 years and continues to cultivate classical equitation in the Renaissance tradition of the haute école."
Rathaus - City Hall
Vienna's Rathaus (City Hall) is one of the most splendid amongst the numerous monumental buildings of Austria's capital. It was designed by Friedrich Schmidt and was erected between 1872 and 1883. The City Hall was built in gothical style, with a tower similar to gothic cathedrals.
Burgteather vis-a-vis from the Rathaus
Empress Maria Theresia handed over an unused dance-parlour to a theatre-company named Sellier in 1741. Later, in 1888, the company moved into a closeby house designed and erected by C. von Hasenauer together with Gottfried Semper. This building was used as theatre house since then.
It is also knows as 'Burg' or 'Haus am Ring' .