Category: Travel

Travelling

The pink super moon woke me up last night, very large and low above the Down on its journey, partly hiding behind our fir tree. Miss travelling – been over a year since visited Europe. Thought Brexit was bad until the virus arrived. With the family grew up with mostly drove to the South of […]

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Guatemala – Mayan World – Sustainable Forestry – alternative to other occupations

The BBC Documentary Guatemala and the Mayan World showed it is possible in the forests of Guatemala to walk over an ancient pyramid as big as ancient ones in Egypt and not know they are there, just seeing dense tropical forest hugging a hill but because of Lidar – everything becomes visible. They are discovering […]

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Nagasaki

Some time ago on a flight from Paris back to the UK was chatting to a family from Japan traveling for holiday over here. They were very excited and we talked about some places worth seeing over here.. Think traveling is opportunity and people you meet on your travels, seem happy It was a short […]

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Sea of Cambodia

Hard  to see both father and brother travel to look for her within a week. Unbelievably heartbreaking to have her returned to them from the Sea off Cambodia. Despair you feel losing contact with someone you love who is old enough to follow their dreams but young or vulnerable Being the parent and watching your […]

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Travels

We have just returned from an interesting road trip to Mecklenberg – we loved Holland the best but didnt spend too long there. When we got lost in Zeeland we followed a motorbiker to an incredibly long tunnel – 6.6 kms under the Islands. The light and green fields in Holland was beautiful but because […]

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To dream or to be

There are some cities and places like -“visiting Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time – the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place” althou have also visited when there were six zillion mosquitoes, pidgeons and other tourists and buildings were […]

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Villages facing extinction turned into ‘albergo diffuso’ (scattered hotel)

© GETTY The Italian-speaking Swiss village of Corippo has a population of 12 – Federica Grassi Written by Gavin Haines of the Telegraph “Scattered across the scenic Verzasca Valley, the Swiss village of Corippo is slowly turning into a ghost town. Home to 300 people during its 19th-century peak, the population has dwindled to just […]

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the man driving the bus

    im sure my fear of heights is about the same as before our trip but driving back down to the village at 1100 m from 700 m higher… just felt so happy. the one thing i took away was trusting the man who was driving the bus

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Sunrise in the mountains

Longing to travel for some time but things happening until just threw a few things in the back of our car and went. We rented a chalet on a small farm in the Swiss Alps for couple of nights and travelled through France camping one night and sleeping another in a basic hotel south of […]

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A272

The last 17 mile stretch of the A272 driving west from Sussex into Hampshire – from the A3 around Petersfield to Winchester is a switchback road thru beautiful countryside that draws motorbikers like honey – even in a car as the road swings from left to right curves with the South Downs and sea in […]

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made me laugh

we were still a way from home after long drive over a few days and walked in to a service station to pay and the man asked if i wanted some gum.. i said no, but if he could figure out a way i could get back home with no more driving – would be […]

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