So it turns out Espot is a great little place to be! With the local bakery open at 7:30am, we decided to copy the locals and enjoy a tasty coffee and fresh pastry for breaky sat in the street. We also bought a fresh baguette ready for later, (along with some olive and artichoke spread thanks to the helpful shop owner who tried his best to find something for us veggies as he had no humous) and also Read on...
The official English translation for this coastal road the Croatians call Jadranska Magistrala (officially called State Road D8) is misleading. It is not a highway at all, but a scenic, winding road along the Croatian Adriatic coast. If you are in a hurry, take the freeway. It is toll road, which was built further inland, courtesy of the EU and other private investors. If you have time, we do to s Read on...
Lucy, Rowan , Sam and Tracey had bought us a trip out to the Tiwi Islands as my birthday and Fletchers Fathers Day present. This was planned for Friday morning. I was sure that the ferry left at so we planned to have a taxi collect us from the hotel at 8 and it was only a 5 minute drive to Cullen Bay where the terminal is situated. We went down to the lobby at and the taxi was waiting so we set Read on...
Inhabited since prehistory, it became part of the Duchy of Normandy in the 10th century. The Channel Islands came under the British crown when William, Duke of Normandy invaded England in 1066 and seized the crown. A fascinating fact is that even today, the Queens title in the Bailiwick of Guernsey is that of the Duke of Normandy, the local toast being, a little bizarrely, βThe Queen, Our Duke. Read on...
Para los amigos argentinos, espero que Google har que puedan leer traducido Si no fuera asi, que alguien me lo diga y tratar de agrerar la traduccin para los prximos blogs
Pour arriver Chora Sfakion. Petit arrt tout de mme au Sud de Rthymnon afin de dcouvrir la ncropole dArmni.
Datant de av. JC, cest un ensemble de plus de 230 tombes minoennes disperses sous les arbres flan de colline. Souven Read on...
The view from our cabin is of Caribbean blue sea and a few moored boats; on the shore are palms and mangrove trees. Weve been woken by the grackles who roost in these trees and like to sing and quark soon after sunrise. It is hard to be upset by their calls, the morning air is pleasantly cool and we will breakfast on the first floor terrace and take in that view.
Getting to the island of Caye C Read on...
Medellins annual Flower Festival is one of Colombias most important regional festivals. Every year the country celebrates its success and the stars of the show are always the silleteros, who have their very own parade.
The silleteros in the festival are flower vendors. They spend the rest of the year farming small plots of land on the misty mountain slopes around The City of Eternal Spring β Me Read on...
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in... ~ Greek Proverb
Well. Here we are. We honestly cant believe we are actually writing this prologue, and are about to leave on an overseas trip! To Greece (via a short stopover in Dubai)! So much happiness. π
The last time we travelled overseas was in January 2020 β when we managed to return from L Read on...
The Killough Monument (massacre site with historic marker) is a hard to find site on an unmarked road running South of Cherokee County Road 3411. The Issac Killough family was unarmed while harvesting their crops. They were attacked resulting in 18 family members being murdered or carried off. The historic marker (and several internet sites) blamed that massacre on Indians; refering to the peacefu Read on...
The other day, I came across a statistic that shocked me: Maturin, in Venezuela, is the 5th most dangerous city on earth with a recorded annual 86.45 homicides per 100,000 residents. Caracas, also in Venezuela, leads the field with 119.87. According to United Nations data, a staggering one third of global homicides occur in Latin America even though the just 8% of the worlds population.
There wer Read on...