Gobekli Tepe and The City of Prophets Sanliurfa, previously known as Urfa (and before that Edessa) boasts not only one of the most ancient…
A Country at the Crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East Is Georgia (the country) situated in Europe, the Middle East or Asia?…
Few places can compete with Mauritius when it comes to exotic sounding French names (from an English language perspective). In the north there is…
August 8, 2021: A life and travel update from your host at GypsyCafe.org South Africa: Cape Winelands and Cape Town In January of 2020,…
Higher Bodies of Water Just over a year ago, on April 16, 2019, I visited the port city of Puno on the shores of…
In June of this year while visiting Iguazu Falls in Misiones Province in Northern Argentina, I decided to do a side-trip to a recommended…
(1) Iguazú National Park – Argentina June 14, 2019 Gallery *** (2) Iguaçu National Park – Brazil June 15, 2019 Gallery *** All photographs…
‘All in a Days Trip’ On Sunday the 14th of April, a day after I arrived in Cusco on the weekend before Easter, I…
Two hundred kilometres north of Lima lies the recently discovered remnants of one of the most ancient centres of a civilisation yet to be…
Barranco Murals – Lima, Peru. Taken on February 26, 2019. — All photos were taken while on a walking tour in Barranco, the bohemian…
[click to enlarge] Buenos Aires is a paradise for street art enthusiasts and artists alike. One of the reasons is that unlike most large…
Santiago Murals. January 2018. Photography by JJ Montagnier. © Copyright. All Rights Reserved. Gypsy Café. — Also see: SANTIAGO STREET ART
Visiting The Chilean Lake District – January 2018 Photography by JJ Montagnier [click to view slides] These photographs were taken in the Los Lagos…
A visit to San Cristóbal Hill – Santiago “The Sanctuary of the Immaculate Conception on San Cristóbal Hill is one of the principal places…
“All the world’s a stage” – Shakespeare We are all actors in the theatre of life and we all play our parts, consciously or…