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Winter Festival in Quebec

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 […]

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 […]

Northern Lights

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 […]

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 […]

After the rain

Martin Lewis 8 Urgent post-Brexit Travel need to knows

“We’re heading towards the summer, millions turn their hopes to future sunny days both here and abroad. Yet, especially with Brexit round the corner, if you’ve booked a trip to Europe, there are some crucial checks you need to do”. more Martin Lewis

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 […]

Paths and rivers

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 […]

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

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 […]

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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Sheep View 360 Degrees – Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

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 […]

Looking for red squirrels

We visited Brownsea Island hopeful to see some red squirrels – we know they are there but like the Northern Lights – you have to be lucky to see them. A small one ran for cover to a tree trunk but somehow i missed it and feel sure as soon as we left they […]

Italian hand gestures

love the something secret one

Some Landscapes by Plinius

The ‘Open Pit at Dannemora Mine‘ and ‘Some wine besides the white clouds‘ written by Plinius who explores Landscapes through Art, Painting, and Photography at ‘some Landscapes’ “Landscape can be a solace to the exile, but it can be hard to contemplate the beauty of lakes and mountains without thinking of home, or the bitter […]