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Written by David/Photos by Michelle & David
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Michelle already did a great job in her last post about her impressions as an outsider of my home town, Llançà. A great location on the Costa Brava (Spain) for culture, food, sport, history and relaxed experiences for all budgets. Now it’s my turn to add my insider tips. Ready? Steady? Go! I have to admit that traveling with Michelle back home so many times has given me the chance … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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We spent last weekend with David’s family in the north of Catalunya (Spain) and realised how different our views of the area, the people, the traditions and the food are. We thought it would be a lot of fun and quite interesting to share some insider and outsider tips with you guys and impressions of the area from the point of view of David and myself. A quick bit of background … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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The other day I came across The Top 50 Cities to See in a Lifetime article on facebook. I rarely click on these links but this particular day curiosity got the better of me and I couldn’t resist seeing how many I had already visited and how many more I needed to add to my bucket list, albeit a somewhat subjective list. After scrolling through the list I counted that I had … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle
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Russia had always seemed a bit mysterious, a bit unknown to me. So when my friend Inga said she would come travelling with me in April 2012, to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Riga, I felt excited but nervous at the same time. The first week of the trip couldn’t have been more contrasting compared to the second week. In this post I will tell you about our experiences in … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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Not that we ever needed an excuse to go back to London. On 1st May this year we had a long weekend free so decided why not pay a visit to the motherland, for me anyway. I was looking forward to catching up with friends I hadn’t seen in a while and shopping as well as being in a country where I didn’t have to think about the language I … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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I had wanted to go to Africa and go gorilla trekking ever since I watched Gorillas in the Mist as a teenager. To date I have been lucky enough to visit Sub-Saharan Africa four times and know that I will visit again some day. In July 2010 I did a camping tour around Southern African with Geckos Adventures. We started at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and made our way across … Read More
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Written by David/Photos by Michelle & David
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Always when on the move we like to travel light, not only for the sake of our poor backs but also to allow for some flexibility in our plans. During our trips we have realized that lots of heavy photography equipment, even if useful most of the time, slow our pace down when traveling in remote areas and keep us from capturing that breathtaking sunrise above the Amazonian treetops or … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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You really do need to carry your camera around with you everywhere you go in Vietnam, not only to capture the beautiful scenery, the people and crazy big city lifestyles but to capture the everyday normal occurrences that are not so normal for a westerner like myself. On my arrival to Vietnam, I was in a taxi driving to Kate’s place when I saw a family of five on a … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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So after flying back to Hanoi I made my way back into the city to visit the water puppet theatre. I would recommend it as something to see once. The whole show is performed on water by puppeteers who are knee need deep in water behind the curtain, it’s actually quite clever how they do it. Most of the show is in Vietnamese, however this does not detract from the show … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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After having such a busy schedule in the first week I was really looking forward to Phu Quoc and just relaxing on the beach and enjoying a bit of pampering. I am stayIng at Mai House Resort, not the best value for money in Vietnam but I guess you are paying for location, location, location. Don’t get me wrong the rooms are nice little bungalows set in a tropical garden … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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Today I started my 2 day Mekong Delta tour on the back of a motorbike. There are quite a few tours that come to the Mekong Delta but normally with an air conditioned bus. I liked the sound of this tour because you get to drive through small villages past rice fields, fruit and coconut plantations and along roads that a bus would not be able to. My guide is … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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My early start was made less painful today since I was travelling business class to HCMC. Don’t get me wrong, I do not normally travel in style but it is just so cheap to fly domestically in Vietnam. I must admit when booking online I wasn’t sure what the plane was going to be like, a bad western assumption I know, so booked the best I could afford ( was … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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So today the hotel organised a car to take a lovely German couple and me to Hoi An (again, cannot recommend Frangipani hotel enough, so incredibly helpful and friendly). We soon discovered a day is not enough to experience all Hoi An has to offer, however we tried to make the most of it. After we had already pretended to be part of a German tourist group and had gone … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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When organising this trip I read a few things about having to experience the train system in Vietnam so I decided to catch the train from Hanoi to Da Nang (because it doesn’t stop at Hoi An). There is also an airport in Da Nang so it made a good base from which to visit Hoi An (the main reason for coming to the area) and to fly onto Ho … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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After much catching up my friend Kate played tour guide and what a great job she did. Kate lives in one of the more upmarket areas of Hanoi, however, what I love about the area is that it is still filled with locals going about their everyday business: men sitting on miniature plastic stools outside cafe huts playing board games; little old ladies gossiping on the steps of a building; … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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When I originally decided to visit Vietnam it was to visit my friend Kate who now lives in Hanoi. Once I started researching and talking to people who had been here I became like a kid in a candy store and wanted to visit every single place recommended. Needless to say the trip became bigger than Ben Hur and unfortunately I’m not going to see much of Kate after all. … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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Iceland has always been on our bucket list. One rainy Sunday afternoon we watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It didn’t take long for us to bite the bullet and booked flights that same afternoon. We only had a week available to see as much as possible. Everything we’d read suggested that we needed longer but we decided to attempt to road trip around the island anyway. Since October … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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Puno The town of Puno is not that much to write home about, it is quite touristy and relies on the tourism related to Lake Titicaca. We did a day trip on Lake Titicaca and were actually pleasantly surprised. We had a funny and flambuoyant tour guide who did a great job of informing us about the area and the communities that live on the lake. We first of all … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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Visiting the Amazon rainforest has been a dream of ours for a long time, seeing it and Macchu Picchu were our two main priorities when planning this trip. We could not have asked for a better guide than Abraham from Amazon Trails Peru. We were lucky enough to be the only two people on our tour so we had a very personal experience with Abraham. He grew up in the … Read More
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Written by Michelle/Photos by Michelle & David
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The Inca Trail deserves a post all to itself since it was one of the main reasons for visiting Peru. To put it bluntly, it was one of the hardest, most challenging things I have ever done in my life. Before starting the hike I was more worried about getting altitude sickness than the hike itself. In hindsight, I should not have underestimated the difficulty of the hike and how … Read More
