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Hawaii – The Big Island Big 5
Nearly 4000 km from the mainland US, Hawaii is definitely not a weekend trip, from any continent, flying from Europe makes it a push for even a week trip. Fortunately we had good reason to be on the West Coast of the US, to visit friends and family in the alien and magical places of …
A Central American Circuit: Colombia > Panama > El Salvador > Colombia
2024 was a bit of a milestone year for Matt, so we decided to extend our Christmas holidays to a bit of a longer period out of the office, to head to South and Central America for 25 Days, covering the 3 countries of Colombia, Panama and El Salvador, plus the Caribbean islands of San …
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Stavanger – Petrol, Preikestol(en), Portholes and bits of Trolls!
The annual bonanza of Dutch public holidays kicks off in May and Ascension gives us Dutchies the chance to ascend to some better weather and glimpses of the sun. So it was a somewhat strange decision this year for us to head north to a part of the world that can surely compete with the …
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SXM – The Friendly Island
At the top end of the Eastern Caribbean lies a verdant island that, whilst just under 90 km2 in size manages to pack in two different countries: the constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – Sint Maarten; and the French overseas collectivity – Sint Martin. How this came to be, is a story of centuries …
Las Tres Cascadas de Anna – the Ultimate Beauty & the Beast Master!
October can be a bit rainy in Valencia and this meant that we had to spend a few days indoors hiding from some increment weather. This ended up getting us hooked on the Netflix series of ‘Ultimate Beast Master’…a kind of international obstacle competition on steroids that has Lyssa shouting very loudly at the tv …
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Beach Hopping in Western Sardinia
After all our recent city trips Lyssa was pining for a bit of a beach holiday; with just a long weekend, we opted for the Caribbean island of Europe…Sardinia. With over two thousand kms of coastline and nearly all of it littered with sandy coves surrounded by azure waters and bathed in the glorious Mediterranean …
The DMZ – Razor Wire, Selfies and Hopes for the Future
A Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) is a place where, as the name suggests there are agreed to be no military activities, no buildings, no soldiers etc. You’ll find DMZs all over the place, in the Middle East, in Antarctica and even in Space. But when it comes to ‘The DMZ’ then we are talking about the …
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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 …
Castile–La Mancha, Knights of the Road
From our Spanish ‘base’ of Alzira (about 45 mins south of Valencia) we have had the fortune to explore a lot of the Valencia region over the past year and have seen a great many local sites (check out those blogs). Now we are getting to the point where we need to push a bit …