It’s with great pleasure that I introduce a post from a fellow travel blogger today. For the next three months Vera and I are going to be exploring Thailand, and sharing our tales and photos of this amazing looking country on this blog. And what better way to kick off our trip than with a […]
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Travel #Pinspiration: Beaches
So we’ve had sunsets and waterfalls, it only makes sense that this weeks Travel Pinspiration theme from ytravelblog is on the subject of glorious stretches of unbroken sand. If you’re new to the #travelpinspiration thing, check out my earlier posts to get an idea of what’s going on. Otherwise, welcome back, let’s dive right in! […]
Girona and the talisman of the Ice Age
When you travel to Spain and visit the lovely town of Girona, you will see the statue of a lion. They say, if you kiss it, you will return to Girona. I nearly didn’t kiss it. Because, you know, it’s not like I have not fallen for this kind of bollocks before. Yeah, I threw […]
Travel – it’s all about the people
Travel provides an amazing opportunity to meet up with people and to peep through the keyhole of their lives, even for a fleeting instant of time. It’s one of the things I love about it – being a sort of life voyeur. Vera and I recently undertook a bit of a road trip across Europe, […]
Visiting the Hobbiton Movie Set: Tours, Prices and Practical Tips
The Hobbiton Movie Set is the permanent film set from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, built on a working sheep farm near Matamata on New Zealand’s North Island. You can only visit on a guided walking tour. The standard tour costs NZ$130 for adults as of July 2026, takes around 2.5 […]
#TravelPinspiration: Sunsets
This is the second of my TravelPinspiration themed posts, following the lead set down by Caz and Craig of yTravelblog, where I share five of my favourite sunset themed shots from around the world to inspire and pin on the Pinterest platform. You can find out more about this in my first post. Last week, […]
In photos: from the Facebook page – Edition IV
Edition four! Who knew the time was going to fly by quite so effectively? The good news is that if you are new to this series, you have three other wonderfully photo rich posts to read, namely Edition 1, Edition 2 and Edition 3. If you aren’t new – well, here’s a round up of […]
#TravelPinspiration: Waterfalls
I know – a blog post with a hashtag. I am so web 3.0. In fact, I think I may re-defining cool when it comes to blog post titles. Yep. So, what’s this all about? Well, Caz and Craig, the lovely folks behind ytravelblog, have started a weekly series called Travel Pinspiration, cunningly mashing […]
Taking some time to relax with @Naturaki in Costa Brava
I may have mentioned in the odd post recently that Vera and I have been down in Spain, attending a travel blogger conference and then being whisked around the incredible Catalan region with the folks from Visit Costa Brava. The travel blogging conference itself was pretty epic, with two long days of workshops and networking […]
Ballooning in Costa Brava
When I learnt, about a month before I was due to head down to Costa Brava, that I was going to be going on a ballooning trip, I was a teeny bit excited. Ok, so I may have wandered around for roughly the next month in a happy daze, mumbling the word “ballooning” at every […]