by Brian Crawford | Jul 8, 2024 | family, personal, travel
I’m back from visiting my parents in Linville Land Harbor, a private community nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. We went on some hikes, toured the area, celebrated the 4th of July, and even got a few games of pickleball in (okay, maybe more...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 27, 2024 | personal, travel
Today Callum and I took a day trip to Karlovy Vary, a popular spa town in the Czech Republic. It took two hours to get there by bus, and it only cost 140 Czech crowns for a two-way trip (on top of our PID annual pass), so it was definitely worth doing. It was a...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 25, 2024 | personal, travel
We spent the past week in the southeast of France in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, by far one of my favorite part of France. We started the week in Antibes, exploring some of the cities there, continued our visit in the walled city of Avignon, then...
by Brian Crawford | Nov 17, 2023 | personal, travel
Today some friends and I visited the Convent of Saint Agnes of Bohemia. The building itself was founded around 1231, while the art gallery within it contains medieval and very early Renaissance art spanning from the late 1200s until the early 1400s. Nearly all of the...
by Brian Crawford | Oct 21, 2023 | nature, personal, travel
Today we hiked the area around Karlštejn Castle, a Gothic castle built in the French style and founded in 1348 by King Charles IV. On our hike we also visited two quarries that were worked by prisoners of war during the late 1940s and early 1950s. I’m not sure how far...
by Brian Crawford | Aug 7, 2023 | personal, travel
Yesterday and today I walked around Prague Castle, the largest ancient castle in the world. It features palaces, gardens, a monastery, a Romanesque basilica, and a Gothic cathedral founded in the year 930. There are also plenty of exhibits demonstrating what life was...
