I flew into Zurich to get to Liechtenstein so I could visit every country in Europe. After I walked across a country (what a flex!), I spent a night or two in Zurich to get my money’s worth of flying all that way (just over an hour flight) from Amsterdam. I’d been to Swizzy before, […]
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What’s the longest in advance you’ve made plans, but then cancelled them last minute? Mine is 9 months. Any millennial wish to challenge me? Hold your horses. I didn’t cancel my whole trip to Norway, but I made plans to hike Trolltunga (Trolls Tongue) and I had to cancel that mini adventure. Norway love’s those
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After arriving back in Stone Town, I needed to catch a ferry to the mainland. I had scoped out the ferry times when I was first in Stone Town and there seemed to be a couple companies and a few options for departure times. My flight back to Amsterdam left at midnight the following day
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After my safari, I arrived at my Arusha accommodation around 16:30. There was some traffic and we needed to drop off a number of people at different parts of the city- bit of a schlep. I had one night before catching a flight to Zanzibar the next day. It got dark around 18:00 and I
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A few months earlier, I locked in a 6-day, 5-night budget camping safari. People told me 6 days would be too long for a safari, but they underestimated my enthusiasm for animals. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. I was just as excited to see my first giraffe as my 20th. The safari I booked took me to the four
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This is going to be a patchwork quilt of a post. It’s going to feel itchy, you’ll be confused, and it’s something you should probably just let gather dust in a cupboard. Our route: I have to say, the cat situation in Bulgaria is top. Reasonably well-fed strays everywhere, and some non-strays that we followed
bulgaria track suits and tickets: veliko tarnovo, plovdiv, riga monastery Read More »
Girona in Spain is very Italian, if you ask me. Nobody did, but I share that opinion with everyone I meet. Bit sus. It’s a beaut. Apparently they filmed season 6 GoT here (do we all hate that I used the abbrev.). You can reenact the shame, shame, shame scene till your heart’s content. There
I take 0 credit for that yummy title. Nestled between France and Spain, sits Andorra. Originally, I thought people were mispronouncing some region of Spain that I never heard of. Turns out it’s a country? When I got off the 3 hour bus from Barcelona, I read a sign that the capital, Andorra la Vella,
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I stayed outside of the center at Hyatt Place Krakow. It was a bit of a jaunt into the center, but I needed a name-branded hotel after my spicay, distrusting stay in the Gran Canaria. There was a tram stop right out front of the hotel, but most trams only accept coins in their machines-
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When leaving the Warsaw airport, if you want to catch the bus into town, don’t follow the ‘coach’ signs- they lead you to the long distances buses. When I went through the doors at arrivals, there wasn’t clear signage- but I always say that when I don’t pay attention and put 2% effort into looking
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