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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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  • croatia
  • split

the historical melting pot of split, croatia

  • onshiftingsands
  • July 10, 2018
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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  • germany
  • regensburg

a weekend in regensburg

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  • 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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  • finland
  • inari

an inari welcome

  • onshiftingsands
  • January 1, 2020
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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  • italy
  • puglia

charming locorotondo

  • onshiftingsands
  • July 26, 2019
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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  • australia
  • country victoria

slow down in benalla, victoria

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 14, 2021
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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view of happy street vendor selling bici bici ice dessert near riverfront in Adana in eastern turkey
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  • adana
  • turkey

from the holy to the profane on the road to adana

  • onshiftingsands
  • June 25, 2024
Today we were travelling from Goreme to Adana. Highlights? A superb underground monastery, awesome Roman aqueduct, and glorious food..
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Closeup view of pistachio filled baklava behind a glass window in Gaziantep in Easter Turkey
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  • gaziantep
  • turkey

food and art treasures waiting to be discovered in Gaziantep

  • onshiftingsands
  • June 26, 2024
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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  • 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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  • norway
  • totak lake

rain and more rain…

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 10, 2018
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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  • germany
  • munich

a winters day in munich

  • onshiftingsands
  • December 28, 2019
Wintery, crisp, christmasy and feeling right at home
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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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  • istanbul
  • turkey

a long weekend in istanbul

  • onshiftingsands
  • July 8, 2019
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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  • 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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  • australia
  • country victoria

lake tyrrell, ethereal and incredibly beautiful

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 15, 2021
– 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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  • finland
  • inari

the early bird catches the fish..

  • onshiftingsands
  • January 3, 2020
Enjoying a day of ice fishing and snowshoeing in Finnish Lapland
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