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A Catalonian ramble
I landed in Barcelona on Saturday around 1:30pm, so after some significant hours of flying or in transit in Dubai….. my head took some time to catch up with me on the ground. I stumbled out of the airport and somehow Lesley and I managed to find each other relatively quickly and we were away…
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A new trip begins to take shape
I’m not sure how Lesley and I decided that we might take a trip across northern Spain and down to Lisbon in Portugal in a campervan sounds like an interesting way to meander across 3 countries (Andorra counts!), so why not?! So we will be taking ourselves where ever the wind shall blow and where…
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The next adventure with Lesley continues- 13 June 2018
Africa introduced me to many great friends and experiences and best of all, a travel buddy who likes the weird and wacky locations……. hence Paula and Les do the Silk Road 2018……. We’ll be starting in Istanbul, heading down to Shiraz in Iran and then trekking across to all of the “Stans”……and then an epic…
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Lessons learned
There are always lessons learned while travelling, many of them are common sense….. which we all know is not all that common! Also, sometimes it doesn’t seem all that obvious at times! For those of you who know me, many of my lessons learned will revolve around the loo….. it’s a hot general topic for…
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Getting off the beaten track in Singapore
On my list of “things to do” in Singapore, was to head out to the Rifle Range Nature Park. Mum presumed this meant that I wanted to head out to some gun range for some shooting. Certainly the Rifle Range Nature Park used to be exactly that, a rifle range, but also a quarry. Fortunately…
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Going from meal to meal in Sing
As I’ve previously mentioned, Mum is most impressed by the breakfasts at the place we are staying in, and in fact, breakfast does usually do us for the rest of the day…. maybe with an ice cream squeezed in the middle of the day somewhere (to cool down of course!). After breakfast, we got lost…
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Slinging in Singapore
After a 24 hour delay, I was finally delivered into Singapore and to a hyperactive waiting Mum. Apparently 24 hours alone was enough and it was time to hit the town! Well, at the very least we walked around to the Gardens By The Bay to catch the light show (which we missed!) and to…
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Frankfurt is not Singapore?
Tell me you’re in Germany without telling me you’re in Germany? Just did! The day started out in Montenegro, with a lovely breakfast with Anya and Ljosha in the back yard….so serene. By 8am I was at the bus station saying so many goodbyes and thank you’s and Ljosha was off to Kindergarten. My bus…
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It’s called Montenegro for a reason
Montenegro, what does it conjure up in your mind? If you said mountains, and lots of them, you’d be right! Traditionally a land locked nation, Montenegro only recently gained a coast line through the Bay of Kotor. Anya and I drove up that crazy set of mountains again to head to the Mausoleum of Petar…
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Split to Kotor, Montenegro, time with friends begins again!
I jumped on a bus in Split to head down to Kotor in Montenegro, to catch up with a good friend of mine, who guided Lesley and I along the Silk Road from Istanbul to Beijing back in 2018. Interesting side fact, I’ve caught up with all the members of that tour in 2023! It…
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