India (December, 2016)  – When I need to relax, calm down, settle into a reflective mental headspace I often think back to mountain tops and monasteries. Back to altitudes, heightened attitude, deep breaths and the small details. It's a release which brings comfort, creates more wanderlust and a sense of freedom.

France (March, 2022) – Maybe it's the current mood; but there is an air of nostalgia humming around. After lunch; we walked back to Jardin des Plantes for a discovery tour of Les Grande Serres. Each glass hub provided a new climate; with new foliage, new blooms and exotic scents. It was a lovely afternoon with an old dear friend, rediscovering old haunts.

France (September, 2014) – A little creepy, a little eerie and out of the normal comfort zone, the Natural History museum and its famed collection of bones is a marvel to explore. The galleries have glass windows which allow a luminous light to magnify some rather haunting skeletal shadows. Entry into mammalia begins with human anatomy and ends in dramatic fashion with a blue whale carcass. My favorite section though is the glass ceiling gallery, and its skeleton collection of monstrous beasts and outrageous fossils.