the historical melting pot of split, croatia
We caught the Krilo ferry from Dubrovnik to Split. It was an easy bus ride on the 1B service just outside Dubrovnik’s Pile Gate to Port Gruz 1. I was expecting an office or at least a…
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a weekend in regensburg
– sausages on the danube – Regensburg is a small town about one and a half hour’s drive to the north east of Munich. It could be done as a day trip but we decided to take our…
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an inari welcome
What to wear in Finnish Lapland in the arctic winter? We were soon to find out that getting dressed for the cold isn't child's play!
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charming locorotondo
Locorotondo is a charming village, still not quite on the main tourist map but on its way there. Whitewashed houses and honey-coloured stone – a beautiful village buried in Villa d'Istria
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slow down in benalla, victoria
So you’ve decided to drive from Sydney to Melbourne (or vice versa). Why not take the slow road and make it an opportunity to see a little more of Australia? That’s what we decided…
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from the holy to the profane on the road to adana
Today we were travelling from Goreme to Adana. Highlights? A superb underground monastery, awesome Roman aqueduct, and glorious food..
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food and art treasures waiting to be discovered in Gaziantep
Gaziantep is just 100km north of the Syrian border. It's the foodie capital of Turkey and one of the mosaic capitals of the world.
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oslo in 6 hours….
This was Day 12 and our last day in Norway. So we had to make the best of it in terms of seeing Oslo before we had to leave for our flight at 4.30. The weather had started to clear up the…
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rain and more rain…
Day 3 of our visit to Norway. Well we thought we had seen the worse of the rain on our first day, but today it just came bucketing down and put paid to all our plans. It was a day spent almost…
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day trips from mildura
– the meeting place of rivers, desert and sand hills – Mildura can be a little quiet on weekends, so we organised a couple of side trips to make the best of our short time in the…
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a long weekend in istanbul
Istanbul has to be the most engaging city in the world. Utterly ramshackle, slowly decaying and incredibly gorgeous and ugly in equal parts. It's both welcoming and indifferent. A city of huge…
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a visit to heddal in norway
Day 1 of our visit to Norway. This morning we picked up our car at Gardermoen Airport and began our 10 day drive around central and southern Norway. Sadly, it rained pretty much the whole day…
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lake tyrrell, ethereal and incredibly beautiful
– a vast expanse of salt, sky and stars – We had spent the morning in Echuca and were now on our way. The road from Echuca to Sea Lake traverses vast expanses of flat, yellow…
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the early bird catches the fish..
Enjoying a day of ice fishing and snowshoeing in Finnish Lapland
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