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60:38 The Journey in, from and between Cities and the Wilderness/Mountains.

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The cities of Prague and Budapest, at least architecturally speaking, are magnificent. Many superlatives may be expressed of them, but we tend to allow photographs to summarize our views in respect of this aspect of our journey. We landed in Prague as our entry point into Europe and thereafter, we commenced with a taxi ride from the airport to our apartment, which was most comfortable (not the taxi), as well as ideally positioned.    The first four pictures below provide some insights to Prague, Czechia.  Our trip thus far has been without a dull moment. Then again, we never have dull moments, but we do have some tricky situations besides the excitement and good old adventure. It’s a good thing that Jenni is still so young and vibrant or else who knows what might happen. I hope to be able to keep up with her which of course is what is supposed to keep me young. I don’t know whether that concept is working or even viable, but it sounds enticing ...

60.36 Bulgaria: Pamporovo: A hike from before Perlik Hut heading across a couple of mountains after passing an army base at Golyam Perelik.

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The ground cover in this region softens the effect of the climbing. It's only the start of a colorful beginning.    We finally understood the derivation of the phrase “Take a hike’. Actually, it’s more than a phrase as it contains a verb, making it a sentence. Hopefully, you’re not reading this for want of a grammar lesson as we’re probably wrong as well as quite boring. Why don’t I get back on the trail and take a hike. There you go: Already you can see an advantage to a reader of us ‘taking a …    Should one think about it, it all makes much sense. In Bulgaria particularly, and in many of the countries we’ve visited, we’ve come across outstanding wilderness areas. We’ve seen tree-filled forests in many parts of the world but would guess that this country is a leader in quantity and quality of trees and forests. So much so that there are many times we cannot separate the wood for the trees or the trees from the forests. What’s impressive is that the forests...