Category: Europe

Lyssa & Matt

La Tomatina 2018

Buñol is a small village of about 10,000 people close to Valencia; its main tourist sights are a small castle and a pretty park that has outdoor concerts during the summer. Not really a tourist hotspot, but for the last wednesday of August each year the village tripples its population as 20,000 white clad party …

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Las Fallas, Valencia

If you visit in Valencia around the middle of March, then you will find yourself in one of the most visually and audibly stunning festivals that Europe has to offer. Las Fallas is a traditional event that explodes across the city from the 15th to 19th March each year and it will quite literally blow …

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Cornish Delights

Whenever we get the past pictures out and see the ones from our trip to Cornwall in May 2017 then we are just stunned how beautiful this place is; I don’t just say that because I am British, but as a Brit who has left these shores many years ago and with a Filipina, who …

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Mini Kyiv

Kyiv, the capital of the Ukraine, famous for the delicious chicken Kyiv (and my favourite…mini kyivs), Dynamo Kyiv football team, being the largest country in Europe with the deepest metro station on the continent…but why else go there? Well, we rarely need a reason to travel and we find that most places have something special …

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The Insides of Albania

  At the mention of Albania, many of you will either be checking google maps to see where on earth we are talking about, or you’ll be picturing gangs kidnapping poor westerners ( a la “Taken”) in a post Stalinist backdrop… but seriously, forget all of that and prepare yourself for one of South Eastern …

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Viennese Winter Waltz

In the middle of winter when the days are dark or cold and you want to make your escape, you can either head to the opposite side of the world in the hope of some sunshine (which means a long journey) or you can double down on winter and head to a place that really …