Enjoying our Essaouira Experience – Backpacking Morocco
Travel Blog | April 18, 2011 | 0 Comments
What does our visit to Essaouira bring us? Sea, sand, seagulls, more great food, an epic hunt for the only off licence in the village, a town layout you can navigate without a guide and a tale of two properties that’s what. For the more energetic there are plenty of water-sports including windsurfing to keep you busy. […]
Morocco: Felicitations Fes – or is it Fez?
Travel Blog | April 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
Forward to Fes We parted company last time on our journey to Fes, is it really only a couple of days since we got off that bus, it seems like an eternity? Fes is also known as Fez, but we just think of the silly hats every time we write it, so will refer to […]
Chefchaouen Backpacking in Morocco
Travel Blog | April 12, 2011 | 0 Comments
Our Backpacking Trip to Morocco starts in Chefchaouen Chefchaouen (or Chaouen as we fondly refer to this place) was as gentle introduction to Morocco as we had expected. It’s a beautiful town teetering on the edge of one of the Rif mountains, whose name escapes me for the moment. It has an interesting history in […]
From Liverpool to Gibraltar to Algeciras
Travel Blog | April 9, 2011 | 1 Comments
Flying from Liverpool to Gibraltar and onto Algeciras So we are out of England and in what is just about the most southerly part of Spain, our final destination is Morocco but first we are going to sample the delights of Gibraltar, Algeciras (Spain) then onto Tarifa before catching the ferry to Tangiers (Morocco). A very […]
Travel Blog | April 7, 2011 | 0 Comments
We’re Off to Morocco So I have blown off the cobwebs, dusted down the shelves and the blog is back in action. We had a wonderful Christmas in Goa, but as this little Christmas calm down was mostly going to consist of beach, eat and drink and smoke I didn’t think it worthy of words. […]
Travel Blog | September 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Two Days in Bangkok So farewell then Thailand, we have flown over you, sailed around your coast, used all you unique forms of public transport and we still love you and am missing your already. We decided to finish our stay in Thailand with a little bit of luxury for our last two nights in […]
Episode 6 – Rambo XVI – Sight of the Panda
Travel Blog | September 4, 2010 | 0 Comments
So elephants ticked off the bucket list, which left us a day in Chang Mai to dick about and cram in as many of the must dos in 24 hours. Here’s how we did Pandas Now I have always wanted to see a panda and we found out that the Chinese government had loaned two […]
Elephant Trekking in Chiang Mai
Travel Blog | September 2, 2010 | 4 Comments
The Hotel We arrived in Chiang airport and the transfer to the Hotel was quick with the airport so near to the city. John decided on this hotel on the last day in samui. He certainly picked abelter, it’s £18 for the room which includes all the usual, the fastest wifi we have had anywhere […]
Episode 4- Planes Trains and Automobiles, Coaches, Tuk Tuks, Sky-train
Travel Blog | August 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
So goodbye then Samui, we will miss you quite a lot. But we set off this morning very excited about our multiple faceted journey ahead of us. For those of you with attention span of a goldfish here are the highlights before I start blathering on about the whole journey in excruciating detail. Taxi to […]
Travel Blog | August 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Today’s blog is brought to you live from the beach and I have included a gratuitous shot of my bare feet just to prove the point. I apologise for the delay in the blogging I am having a bit of trouble with my sleep timings which have swung from late nights out in Patong till […]
India Car Rental and Driver Hire
How to Rent a Car and Driver in India We’d like to share our experience, and a few of the stories we learned about renting a car and driver from our two week tour of Rajasthan. Like arranging other things in India, it is not always as simple or easy as you may first imagine. […]
Photo Flashback – Kerala Kathakali Dance
We are not really ones for the cultural shows that you regularly find in travel destinations. Often they are a thin representation of the actual song or dance traditions of a community, overpriced and leave you feeling a little bit cheated. This was certainly the case in Waitangi doing the Haka with some actors. Sometimes […]
Goa Retirement, Revamps and a bit of Home Cooking
We hang about in Goa for our remaining time in India sampling foods from home and join the large expat community and retired folk enjoying what is on offer. We had decided in Udaipur that it was time to invest some time doing some work on the blog. Our traffic has been growing steadily over […]
Udaipur And A Break From Travel Blogging
For those arriving at this travel blog post hoping to find out detailed information about our experiences and things to do in Udaipur, leave now, as you’ll need to look elsewhere instead. The hectic schedule of our last two weeks on the road with our driver had wearied us a little. The thought of seeing […]
India Rajasthan and Golden Triangle Itinerary
Two Week Itinerary for Rajasthan and the Golden Triangle You can get to see some of the top sights in Rajasthan and the Golden Triangle in India in fourteen days or less, it will not be a restful experience, but you will gain a lifetime of memories and images from the magnificent Taj Mahal to […]
Jodhpur and the Road to Udaipur
Jodhpur – The Blue City It was a long drive to Jodhpur, our second to last destination in Rajasthan, before waving off our driver. The three restful days in Jaisalmer and our separation from each other had allowed driver and passenger relations to be restored to more friendly less tense mood levels. So we set off […]
In our last travel blog post I mentioned that I had done another diving course. I’ve included some underwater photographs and videos taken whilst I was on this course. We stayed in Bohol, longer than anywhere else in the Philippines, because of the excellent diving sites at very reasonable prices. Bohol is a magnet […]
A delay in this post has been caused by very slow internet connections throughout the last part of our travels in the Philippines. Apologies. However, it now means you have a fun packed bumper blog of travel frustrations, cute monkeys, the chocolate hills and a small slightly disappointing beach. Weather Retreat Given the weather we […]
Donsol, Whale Sharks and Legazpi
Reluctant as we were to leave the beauty of Saud beach we had a lot more Filipino treasures to explore. From the relaxing, serene shores of Saud beach, we headed south towards Donsol in search of some whale sharks. The weather proved challenging, but the wildlife made it all worthwhile. From Pagudpud we reversed […]
Ilocos Norte, Pagudpud and Saud Beach
The ‘Borocay of the North’ is the strapline trying to attach itself to this beautiful part of Ilocos Norte in the Philippines. While I cannot make the comparison yet, I believe Saud Beach in Pagudpud really is a little hidden gem that may eventually give its more famous southern cousin a run for its peso. We […]
Manila and the road to Pagudpud
We arrived in the Philippines on board another Jetstar flight at around 8pm on a Saturday. Having left Bali we had a brief layover in Singapore before our arrival in Manila. The immigration, customs and baggage pick up went like a dream and we were out of the airport within half an hour of touching down. This […]