‘Roving Photographer’ Archives
Day Train from Berlin to Prague
Short train ride from Berlin, Germany to Prague, Czech Republic. The distance is about 280 km or 174 miles, which takes about 3 hours. The route goes through Dresden, Germany and follows the Elbe to the Czech Border. The train crosses the German/Czech border at the city of [Read More]
Hamburg to Berlin, Germany
View Larger Map Rode the Deutche Bahn from Hamburg, Germany to Berlin. I was in Hamburg only a short time to have a look around and see where the Beatles got started. Berlin is a huge cosmopolitan city. It is not as much of a German city like, say, Munich. You won’t [Read More]
Amsterdam to Hamburg
Photo courtesy of Amazing Travel Photos For the next leg of my journey, I traveled by train from Amsterdam Centraal Station to Hamburg Hauptbahnhoff. I actually took three trains to get there with changes in Hilversum, and Osnabruck. Surprisingly, the train from Osnabrook [Read More]
European Tour 2010
The Roving Photographer starts his 2010 European Tour by flying from New York City to Amsterdan by way of Brussels. [Read More]
San Diego to The Big Apple
The Roving Photographer travels across the USA from San Diego to New York City. [Read More]
San Juan Capistrano to San Diego
The Roving Photographer starts his 2010 journey by traveling from San Juan Capistrano to San Deigo by Amtrak train. [Read More]
San Diego to Laguna Beach by Train
View Larger Map After spending about three weeks in San Diego I moved again. I traveled by Amtrak to Irvine Amtrak Station and then took four local buses to Laguna Beach. OCTA buses 86, 70, 89 and 1. (OCTA stands for Orange County Transportation Authority.) An all-day pass [Read More]
San Diego, California USA
Photo courtesy of Amazing Travel Photos Perfect weather year round, Blue skies, blue Pacific water–what more could you ask for? San Diego is one of the nicest cities in America to live. Or to visit. San Diego is home to the San Diego Padres baseball team, the San [Read More]
Preserving Old World Customs
Everyone knows that the USA is a land of immigrants. Around the end of the 19th century and early 20th century there were massive waves of immigrants from Europe. Many came from Italy and Eastern Europe and settled all throughout America. As a result, many U.S. cities from [Read More]
Travel Planet Organizational Notes
A few organizational notes here. The Roving Photographer column, which is my personal travel blog, is now a part of Travel Planet. Travel Planet also has a section for food and drink called Bon Appetit, a section for covering travel accommodation called Hotels & Hostels [Read More]
Amtrak Surfliner to San Diego
Photo courtesy of Amazing Travel Photos “All Aboard! Next stop San Diego!” The Amtrak locomotive is sitting in San Diego’s Santa Fe station which is the main railway station. It is located right downtown in beautiful sunny San Diego. I had just stepped off [Read More]
Orange County Freeways
At the beginning of November I flew from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Orange County’s John Wayne Airport on Continental Airlines. The route went through Houston, Texas, which is a Continental Airlines hub, and then Newark Airport on the east coast before flying to [Read More]
Buenos Aires to Newport Beach, California
Well, it is time to say Adios to Argentina. I fly from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Newport Beach, California. Google maps can’t show direction across continents, but Argentina is on the east coast of South America way down in the south. It is something like 6000 miles [Read More]
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The bridge is the Puenta de la Mujer Bridge (Bridge of the Women) at Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and built in 2001. After arriving at my accommodation in downtown Buenos Aires, I took a walk from my hostel down to the waterfront. It [Read More]
In Search of the Endless Summer
I spent the month of September in the American midwest. Overall the weather was very nice. But at the end if the month the weather turned cold and wet. This is a clear sign that winter is on its way, so it seemed like a good time to head for a warmer climate. I heard [Read More]
City Year
While I was visiting Cleveland I observed a group of young people exercising as group in front of the Town City Center in downtown Cleveland. Many were wearing red jackets or sweatshirts. The group turned out to be City Year. City Year is a corps of young people, aged 17 to [Read More]
Cleveland Rocks
The term Rock-and-Roll was coined by Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed back in 1951 when he would play black Rhythm & Blues records on the radio for a white teenage audience. Now Cleveland is home to the rock and roll Hall of Fame. So, yeah, Cleveland rocks! I am [Read More]
U.S. Cell Phone Ripoff
I do a lot of traveling and have a mobile telephone number from the local carrier in most countries I visit. I do this by purchasing a SIM card with pre-paid minutes from a local provider, which in many places might be Vodaphone, and installing the SIM card into an unlocked [Read More]
New York to Cleveland by Amtrak
View Larger Map The next leg of my travel is through the American midwest. But instead of flying I took an Amtrak Train from Penn Station in New York City to Cleveland, Ohio. The distance is about 750 km or 465 miles. The train was the #49 Lake Shore Limited which travels [Read More]
Back in the USSA
I left the former USSR and now I am back in the USSA. I was behind the “iron curtain” for over a year. Now I am back behind the golden curtain–the Big Apple, New York City. I flew into JFK airport in New York and stayed in midtown Manhattan near Penn [Read More]
