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Today, I realised a travel dream. It was back in 2022, just before Christmas. I’d just come back from Antarctica, while the other people in my travel group stayed in South America for longer. Eneko posted a video of himself at Iguazu Falls, in a boat on the river underneath a huge waterfall. Something about […]

This morning we packed a bag for 2 nights, just as we did for the Amazon, and we started heading for the Sacred Valley of the Incas and Muchu Picchu. The views all along here are spectacular. Though when I turned around… … there were some gum trees. There are so many here. Every time […]

The group split up today. A few of us went to see Rainbow Mountain, but most of us chose the more varied tour on offer. Unfortunately, I was sitting on the wrong side of the van, so there were reflections on the window. I tried my best. Also, it’s really hard to get photos from […]

This cathedral, built in 1860, is a very handy landmark, due to its central location and distinctive colour. Next door is a Franciscan monastery that’s still operating. It’s austere inside, because of the next door neighbours. Apparently, Franciscans aren’t very flashy people. 1895- earthquake. It pretty much levelled the town. This is where the more […]

Today, the long-threatened bad weather finally arrived. We counted ourselves VERY lucky that the torrential rain wasn’t falling when we were walking on the limestone streets of Kotor, and Dubrovnik. We would have been slipping and sliding all over the place. As it was, today was a city called Zadar, and then a 7 km […]

Bosnia and Herzegovina has the same mountainous terrain as the other countries we’ve been in. It’s dotted with little villages, with some obviously being abandoned. Here, old stone walls are left on their own. The quick answer as to why this country has such strange name is “politics.” The longer answer is that after the […]

Today was the day we’ve all been waiting for. We were spending the day in the Old Town of Dubrovnik. Game of Thrones fans would know that the Kings Landing scenes were shot here.  I read all of the GOT novels, but only watched the first series… (and the last couple of episodes of the […]

Our first stop of the day was really interesting. It was the National Palace Museum, which houses over 60,000 Chinese antiquities that Chiangmai Kai-Shek “rescued” from the fighting that was around the Forbidden City as he fled China. If you peer beside the magnifying glass, you can get an idea of how small the stone […]