Lucky number 13! Time for another round up post of some of the most popular images that we’ve shared on our Facebook Page over the last couple of months. Since the last post we’ve been busy touring Brazil, Ecuador and the Galapagos, so naturally we have photos from those adventures in this collection – as […]
Archives for February 2014
The Galapagos: Boobies and… Coffee?!
I’m not saying you’ll have a hard time finding souvenirs to bring home from your trip to the Galapagos, what with the shops on the bigger inhabited islands. But maybe you suspect T-shirts saying “I love Boobies” (referring to the famous bird you can spot here, the blue or red footed booby, of course) are […]
Preparing and Planning a Galapagos Trip
The Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are the kind of place you are thrilled to get to visit once in your life, like we were, over Christmas and New Year of 2013/14. Visiting once means you want to get it right in terms of what you take with you, the kind of trip […]
Visiting L’Aquila: A Ruined City
L’Aquila is the capital of Italy’s Abruzzo region, 100km from Rome. It’s a beautiful town, set high up in the mountains, and it dates from the twelfth century. On the 6th April, 2009, an earthquake struck L’Aquila in the middle of the night, killing 308 people, damaging around 11,000 buildings, and rendering 65,000 people homeless. […]
Tips for Visiting Marrakech
A good friend of mine recently spent a few days in Marrakech, and asked if she could blog about it here on Finding the Universe. I was happy to say yes! So read on to find out more about what Monica and her Mum found to do in Marrrakech, and when you’re done, check out […]
No Hablo Espagnol: A Homestay.com Experience
When we went to a travel blogging conference in Dublin last year, we met some folks of an interesting new company, who built a website that lets you find and book homestays all over the world via the internet. But they are not just a search engine – their unique approach is that all the […]