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17 days ago - BobsJoy published a blog
Visit to the lovely craft village of Lefkara in the hills
April 13th 2024
Super day today with some beautiful Cypriot scenery and a gorgeous village, Lefkara. Then a monastery, Agios Minas.My nose will forever be filled with the scent of the lemon trees which pervaded the v ...

17 days ago - moonman published a blog
Taormina
April 23rd 2024
This morning we had breakfast at our hotel again. Fresh squeezed orange juice and a variety of eggs and breads and croissants and sweet treats along with some typical Italian meats. Cappuccino is also ...

18 days ago - MrsMac published a blog
Brilliant Brazil
April 21st 2024
We have just sailed out of Brazilian waters having spent a week here. We made three stops, Rio, Salvador and Recife. We had visited Rio twice before but the others were new to us. The saga of visiting ...

18 days ago - Indie Brindie published a blog
The fridge, the python & the scorpion
March 27th 2024
3 glorious days already on Cacnipa and a 4th one approaching. It all sounded perfect so where did it all go wrong? Tbh, this potential 4th day was always a high risk proposition as we needed to be at ...

18 days ago - MarcieKingsbury published a blog
Marcie's Big Adventure - Day 15/1st Day of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 21st 2024
Hi Everyone, About 3:30 this morning, some crazy gal started singing at the top of her lungs on her balcony. She woke me up and it sounded like quite a few others too judging by all the yelling at ...

18 days ago - ozray published a blog
Day 17 - Umeda Sky Building, Osaka Aquarium, Tempozan Ferris Wheel, Teamlab Botanical Gardens
April 23rd 2024
Late start this morning. Left 8:45 and went down the road to the hotel's cafe. We didn't think it had what we wanted, so we decided to go to the Umeda Sky Building. Not best day for it as it's raining ...

18 days ago - JenGog published a blog
Turkey 13 - Istanbul - Trying out the tram / a trip along the Bosphorous on the European side
April 22nd 2024
Today found us past hump day . When I worked Wednesday was always hump day . Now retired hump day is moveable and means whatever day of the week I choose it to be . This week we had reached over half ...

18 days ago - lexispence10 published a blog
Montevideo, Uruguay
March 21st 2024
After our return from Ushuaia, we stayed at the nice hotel, Palacio Paz, near our previous Sheraton Hotel and in a nice park setting. I'll go more into some random nights in Buenos Aire later, but thi ...

18 days ago - WonderYears published a blog
Takayama: Day 76 to 80
April 19th 2024
After Hiroshima, my plans were a bit fuzzy, but I headed to Takayama in the Gifu prefecture, to use it as the base for a few places I wanted to visit. Takayama is the largest city by area in Japan, ...

18 days ago - moonman published a blog
Etna
April 22nd 2024
Today we decided to go to Mount Etna. We consulted Google Maps and then got into the Volkswagen Taigo and we were ready to go. Pedro has been doing very well with his Sicilian driving. It seems that h ...

18 days ago - moonman published a blog
Catania airport and travel to hotel in Giardini Naxos
April 21st 2024
Arrived in Sicily today flying into the Catania airport via Rome departing initially from Chicago. We had one hour for our plane transfer in Rome. We did a quick walk through the airport and through i ...

19 days ago - ozray published a blog
Day 16 - Journey to Osaka
April 22nd 2024
Early start so we could try the hotel's buffet breakfast at their Slow Cooking Restaurant. We left at 8:30 and reached Platform 11 easily, for our last Shinkansen bullet train to Osaka departing 9:11. ...