Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
We spent a little over two weeks in Jordan. We hired a car and drove through the country visiting various sties along the way. The local people are amazing – so friendly and welcoming. The country is beautiful and there are so many amazing things to see. There are many big, bucket list items (Petra,…
The are over 300 châteaux in the Loire Valley. We visited the area for just under a week and went to as many as possible. During that time we were able to visit 17 different châteaux. Here are the ones we visited and what we thought about each one. We can’t wait to visit again,…
We spent just over two weeks in Jordan on an amazing roadtrip through the country. When researching our trip to Jordan we found a lot of itineraries that were for 5 to 10 days. While Jordan is a relatively small country, we decided to spend a bit longer and take our time exploring Jordan. I…
After spending several months in Albania, it was time to drive back to England. We travelled through several Balkan countries, as well as Italy and France. There was so much to see and enjoy, including visiting a number of Christmas markets.
Stari Bar, or Old Bar, is a town in Montenegro with a history going back 2,500 years. Today, you can visit the abandoned town and walk through the ruins of the old town. Unfortunately, most of the buildings were severely damaged during an earthquake in 1979, so much of the ruins you see today have…
We have been basing ourselves out of Saranda, Albania for the last few months and have been staying across the water to the island of Corfu. We have patiently been waiting for the ferry between Saranda and Corfu to start again. Finally, after nearly 18 months (due to covid), it reopened a couple weeks ago….
As we made our way back to London from Albania, we decided to spend a few days in Istanbul. We stayed at a lovely place in the Sultanahmet area. This area turned out to be great. It was a short walk to all the attractions we wanted to visit and there were great food and…
Albania was an unexpected adventure. We were enjoying Greece when the country went into a full lockdown due to covid. We needed to leave the country (or spend weeks sitting in a hotel room) and ended up finding a cheap priced flight from Athens to Tirana, Albania. We didn’t know anything about Albania. We booked…
Now that we’ve completed the North Coast 500 route we started to make our way back home towards London. This post starts from Inverness heading back towards London. Check out our other posts on the journey north to the NC500 and the NC500 route. In the two weeks we took to get back south to…
While doing the North Coast 500 route we decided to take a side trip to Orkney Mainland. The couple days spent on the island were better than we expected. There is so much to see and do on the island – we really wish we would have planned more days to explore more of the…