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2 days 10 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 ...

2 days 10 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' ...

2 days 16 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 ...

2 days 16 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 ...

2 days 17 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 ...

2 days 18 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 ...

2 days 20 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 ...

3 days 5 hours ago - BobsJoy published a blog
Visit to Lofou in the mountains
April 16th 2024
Last day of an amazing holiday. We went a little way into the Troodos mountains where the scenery is wonderful, just the foothills this trip. Last year we went up to the top, to the snow line and a ...

3 days 7 hours ago - moonman published a blog
Palermo by Horse and Carriage and Trapani
April 25th 2024
It was sunny when we left our hotel. By the time we got to Palermo it was drizzling. We parked the car and then hopped on a horse drawn carriage. We had a tour of the area and then we were dropped nea ...

3 days 15 hours ago - lexispence10 published a blog
Colonia del Sacramento
March 22nd 2024
The bus station in Montevideo was actually very nice and the 3-hour journey to Colonia del Sacramento was easy. We arrived at the station and got tickets pretty quickly, with assigned seats. We waited ...

3 days 16 hours ago - onthegogirl published a blog
Barcelona-Home
April 25th 2024
April 21 Last night I asked the desk for a Tapas Bar close by. Following his directions I came upon the source of last night’s activity. Not a protest, not a political demonstration but rather ...

3 days 19 hours ago - JenGog published a blog
Turkey 15 - Istanbul /the funicular up to Taksim Square /the heritage tram, the long downhill walk to the Galata Tower
April 25th 2024
We left our guide with that warm fuzzy feeling of something that had been extremely enjoyable . Sometimes you can do something and say it was not long enough/too short/could have been better /was the ...