Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
St. Augustine is the oldest, continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States. The was founded by Spanish explorers in 1565. It become part of the United States in 1819. In that time is was the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years, then it was the capital of British East Florida for a…
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…
I’m not sure why, but Ben and I have been into space lately. Strange (for us) but I’m totally getting into it. We started watching “For All Mankind”, which is a very interesting show and got us looking up facts about the space race. Fast forward a couple months and we found ourselves in Florida….
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…
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…
We just spent a couple of days in Sleepy Hollow, New York (Tarrytown). Yes, Sleepy Hollow, as in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. I really wanted to visit the area in October because of The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze, which is displays showing thousands of carved pumpkins! So Blaze was the reason…
Ben and I were both really excited to visit Tanna. Based on our research this island seemed quite different to the other islands we were visiting this trip. The main attraction is the volcano – Mount Yasur. We decided to stay three nights in Tanna. The first two nights were spent near the volcano and…