Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
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…
My UK visa was about to expire, so I (we) had to leave the country. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), at the time we started looking to travel several countries had started to go into lockdown again, which left us with only a few easy to get to countries – one of the options just happened…
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…
We decided we wanted to do the North Coast 500 route along the north coast of Scotland. Since we were planning to drive all the way north, we thought we would take our time getting there (and back) from London. In the two weeks we took to get to Lochcarron to start the NC500 we…
We decided to take a quick trip to Bath. We visited Bath in mid-November and had no issues getting tickets or waiting for entry times to any of the attractions. Ticket availability and wait times may be different at other times of the year. We arrived later in the day, too late to visit any…
We began our time in Vanuatu on the island of Aore. We stayed at Aore Island Resorts. The resort arranged transport for us from the airport in Luganvile. It was a short drive to the boat dock and then a 10 minute boat ride to the island. When we arrived at the resort we were…
Romania. I can easily say that Romania is one of my favorite countries. There is so much to like about Romania, and so many different things to see and do. I’m not a big fan of returning to places we have already visited, but Romania is on the top of my list of places to…
Nikko was a highlight of our trip to Japan. We experienced the Japanese Edo Era, got to see some amazing old shrines and temples, saw the wise monkey carving, and had the best New Year’s Eve we have both ever had. Plus we got to see snow (which was the main reason for visiting Japan over Christmas).