Northumberland
A return visit to Bamburgh, and the border

A return visit to Bamburgh, and the border

After boarding a minibus in Alnwick, a town in Northumberland, England, on a tour, I fell fast asleep. So, I don’t know what explanations were given, or if there were any, but when...

Northumberland

A used bookshop in an old train station

Alnwick, an old town in Northumberland, England, has more to offer than just its castle. One such attraction is the used bookshop, “Barter Books.” What makes it special is that it was once…

Northumberland

In the town of Alnwick

The minibus tour that departed from Edinburgh, Scotland, crossed the border into England. You might think it’s strange to call it a “border” since it’s all part of the UK, but the UK…

Kelso

On a tour

On our second day in Edinburgh, Scotland, we took a tour heading south. The tour company was our usual, Rabbie’s. We’ve used this company quite a few times since our first tour in…

Plovdiv

Sleepy wife and villain looking husband

The hotel we stayed in in Plovdiv, Bulgaria‘s second largest city, is named Boutique Hotel Boris Palace and is located in the middle of the old town. It’s a small hotel and has…

Spain

To Getxo

On the last day of our Basque holiday in Spain, we went to a town called Getxo. Our hotel in Bilbao had a leaflet for spending one day in Getxo ready,…

Cuba

And…horse…and…old car..

In the lively centre of Cienfuegos there are a lot of different ways to transport, old cars, horses… People’s clothes and style are not different from ours. So it is a world of mixture of past and present,…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Mount Konpira

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. Before leaving the town of Kotohira, our aim was climbing up the mount Konpira and visiting the temple located on the peak. The path was quite difficult...
shopping
Shopping

That evening’s walk

After a thorough sightseeing tour of Fez, Morocco, we took a stroll through the medina surrounding our riad that evening. Ideally, we wanted to descend the hill and return to the more traditional...
airlines
Airlines

Traveling by Air: Connecting Worlds

We love exploring new destinations and the journey is often as exciting as the arrival. While we are currently updating our archives on airlines and flight experiences, we look forward to sharing more insights on...
food
Food

Very Good Lunch and Confetti

Now it was lunch time in Sulmona, a town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy. Our guide, Guido, took us to a restaurant called Il Vecchio Muro, which he had been...
hotels
Hotels

Lovely hotel and town walk

Zafra, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is an Andalusian-like white town, so much so that it is sometimes called “Little Seville”. We stayed one night at Hotel Plaza Grande, a hotel located...
food
Restaurants

two tapas restaurants in Marbella

On the day we arrived in Marbella in the south of Spain, after walking around the old town, we went out to the sea. It was mid February, so there were not...
food
Food

Beer country

Poland is a beer country. It was memorable that when I ordered beer instead of wine at a restaurant, the waiter bobbed his head in approval with a big smile in Krakow in...
transports
Hotels

To Tenerife

We spent our holiday over Christmas and New Year in Tenerife, one of the Canary islands in Spain. Tenerife is a popular destination for British, German and northern European people seeking the...