New Travel Blog Posts

1 hour 23 mins ago - JenGog published a blog
Turkey 17 - Istanbul - the taxi that did not turn up on time /Istanbul airport and security plus/ Eid Mubarak - the flight home and Turkish breakfast again
April 27th 2024
You never sleep well when you are travelling home . More so when you are governed by the time of your taxi, the journey time to an airport and a flight you cannot afford to miss . We set the alarms - ...

2 hours 20 mins ago - JenGog published a blog
Istanbul 16 - conflicts between the head and the heart/seedy Istanbul/ cars in a state of disrepair /the Marmaray line under the sea /the Theodosian walls
April 26th 2024
In a conflict between the heart and the brain follow your heart - Swami Vivekananda said this and perhaps sometimes it is right . However there are times when your heart wants to do something but your ...

4 hours 30 mins ago - AndrewHL published a blog
Victoria
August 21st 2023
Monday was, in large measure, a sea day as Carnival Pride made her way down the length of Vancouver Island, in view in the distance most of the day. Naturalist Louise kept passengers apprised of whale ...

10 hours ago - DaveandIssy published a blog
The Prime Minister was a Local?
April 26th 2024
We seem to have spent a lot of time traversing the globe over the past few years, and we’ve often been quizzed on our impressions of the empty arid centre of our wide brown homeland. And our response? ...

12 hours ago - moonman published a blog
Erice and Segesta - churches and ruins
April 26th 2024
We had a lovely breakfast at our hotel this morning. An assortment of fresh fruit, breads, scrambled eggs, salami and cappuccino. The hotel Mon Plaisir was beautiful with well kept gardens and a pool. ...

14 hours ago - MarcieKingsbury published a blog
Marcie's Big Adventure - Day 18/Trip Home
April 24th 2024
Hi Everyone, Traveling home. Between the train station, the airport and the train station in the airport, I cannot begin to tell you how many times I uttered the words “do you speak English?”. Than ...

14 hours ago - Indie Brindie published a blog
Manila's heritage
April 4th 2024
Hi all, My last blog saw us waiting to flag down a coach to Cebu City from Oslob. Well, this soon happened and after about 5 hours we were back and a short taxi ride took us the 'Beds and Friends' ...

20 hours ago - Warey published a blog
Cooling sea breeze
April 26th 2024
And we are back on the coast, enjoying the cooling sea breeze, relaxing in a hotel before our flight home. We are all desperate to get out of the heat, and I’m not sure my sweat glands or clothes will ...

20 hours ago - Warey published a blog
It’s a seven leopard kind of day
April 25th 2024
Our last day here was met with some expectation and anticipation. We were excited that no more 5am starts awaited us and equally delighted that our slow roaster would soon ding. But we were excited to ...

22 hours ago - Warey published a blog
Show me the sloth bear!
April 24th 2024
We certainly weren’t relishing the idea of leaving the beautiful airconditioning to head back into the furnace of a safari camp again, but an evil-looking centipede basically chased us away, and we we ...

22 hours ago - Warey published a blog
The dark
April 23rd 2024
We’ve taken to undertaking our activities in the dark - given it’s about 600 degrees by 7.30am, it seemed like a good idea to start at 4am to see if that made it any more pleasant…alas not. By 5 minut ...

1 day 1 hours ago - christinewesten published a blog
Travel day
April 25th 2024
Crossing another country off my bucket list! Technically I have been to the UK before when I was one and a half but I have never been to Scotland. Castle ruins, abbey ruins, amazing scenery and the Sc ...