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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
As Lyssa is a born and bred Bicolana it should be no surprise that we often make trips back to Bicol from the Netherlands. Luckily for us as well as getting looked after like royalty by Lyssa’s family we also get spoiled with the Philippines’ best cuisine and get to explore some of the unsung tourist …
This year we had organised Christmas and New Year in the Philippines with Lyssa’s family, and as we arrived a little early we decided to take a side trip to Bali as a pre-Christmas treat! Christmas, however is not one of the best times to visit Bali (rather April – Oct), so if you do …
Out of all the countries we have visited in the world, Japan is hands down our favourite – the people, the sights, the culture and above all the food; it is all so amazing, alien (for us Europeans) and fascinating that we could just keep returning every year, if only there was not the rest …
We love Japan and we love skiing, so a dream trip for us was to travel to Japan with our friends Willem and Christian to do 10 days of skiing in the Nagano prefecture of Japan. The resorts are smaller than in Europe, there is loads of snow, it is much less crowded and Japanese …
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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 …
The final island of the three of ABC for our trip to this part of the world, and we saved the best til last. Bonaire is the most natural of the three islands, you’ll find no big hotels on this island, just raw beauty, air-BNBs, boutique hotels and diving and snorkeling galore. Get ready for …