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Closeup view of pistachio filled baklava behind a glass window in Gaziantep in Easter Turkey
  • gaziantep
  • turkey

food and art treasures waiting to be discovered in Gaziantep

  • June 26, 2024
view of happy street vendor selling bici bici ice dessert near riverfront in Adana in eastern turkey
  • adana
  • turkey

from the holy to the profane on the road to adana

  • June 25, 2024
inflating a hot air balloon which is lying on its side in cappadocia, turkey
  • cappadocia
  • turkey

Rediscovering your inner child in beautiful Cappadoccia

  • June 24, 2024

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  • a murray river roadtrip
  • australia

day trips from mildura

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 16, 2021
– 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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  • greece
  • pelopponnese

must-see spots in pelopponnese

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 12, 2019
exploring the abandoned histories of mystras and monemvasia
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  • australia
  • country victoria

immersing ourselves in the vic gold rush

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 20, 2021
– a trip through some amazing australian history – The 1850’s Victorian gold rush is one of the major events that we all remember from our primary school history days.…
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  • palermo
  • Sicily

palermo is both gritty & wondrous

  • onshiftingsands
  • June 29, 2022
Palermo is a frantic place, loud and dirty, friendly and gruff. It’s like a place you might find in a story from the Arabian nights.
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  • norway
  • oslo

oslo in 6 hours….

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 20, 2018
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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  • finland
  • inari

lake inari

  • onshiftingsands
  • January 5, 2020
We woke to the clearest and brightest day of our stay. What a shame! We thought we would spend our last few hours on the lake. Some beautiful shots – it was a very special light we…
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  • a murray river roadtrip
  • australia

a paddle steamer on the murray at echuca

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 15, 2021
– a gentle paddle up an iconic river – We had decided to follow the iconic Murray River along the Victorian border and were headed to Sea Lake after a brief stay in Rutherglen. An…
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  • heddal
  • norway

a visit to heddal in norway

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 8, 2018
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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  • norway
  • oslo

driving from heggenes to oslo

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 18, 2018
Day 11 of our trip to Norway. Not much to report today as we spent most of it doing mundane things. We left Herangtunet Hotel early after breakfast. One final shot of our wing – we were…
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  • australia
  • country victoria

a quiet day in and around castlemaine

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 21, 2021
– gentle beauty & peace found in the run-of-the-mill – We had decided to spend a quiet day exploring a few small towns in and around Castlemaine. There’s nothing grand…
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  • germany
  • regensburg

a weekend in regensburg

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 26, 2018
– 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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  • austria
  • salzburg

chocolate box salzburg

  • onshiftingsands
  • July 29, 2018
Living in Munich is fantastic. It’s so central and therefore makes it easy to get to so many places we want to visit in Europe. So on the spur of a moment over lunch on Saturday, we…
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  • australia
  • country victoria

exploring painted silos

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 18, 2021
– faded glory days and resilient determination – The silo art trail in north west Victoria is becoming a major tourist attraction. We’d seen a string of painted silos on our…
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  • bergen
  • norway

wandering around bergen

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 13, 2018
Day 6 of our trip to Norway. A slow day wandering around Bergen today. I was only vaguely aware of this town until recently when my sister recommended a UK TV series to me called Shetland.…
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  • greece
  • milos island

village life on milos

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 6, 2019
sleepy villages and local life are the unexpected pleasure of visiting an out of the way Greek island like Milos
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