Most of what you read below is from 2012, when I took a year off to travel around Latin America and Europe and I thought this current leg of travels in 2015 would be a good time to reflect and … Read More
A long summer in Italy Post our short visit to Paris, we had planned to come back to Italy to explore the southern region, of what has been our favourite country in Europe so far. What we were dreading though, … Read More
Bulls, beaches, nudity, tapas, paellas; seen it all with our mates! Chapter 1: Madrid Dreading the searing summer heat above anything else, we arrived into Madrid from Palermo. As with every big city, it had been extremely difficult to find … Read More
Say cheese! Dee and I did not have France as a destination on our travels for this year as we felt that it was too large and diverse a country to travel around in a few days, but having chanced … Read More
Home of the best desert the Mediterranean has to offer – Pasteis de Belen! A 10 hour flight and barely 4 hours of sleep later, we were off to catch our first ever RyanAir flight. For all the negative whispers … Read More
Capital of spice Some tedious immigration checking at Cuba, a cheap flight, and armed with 3 boxes of habanos later, we were in the city of Cancun, Mexico. Well not quite yet in Cancun, as what followed was a thorough … Read More
The country that is the anti-thesis of the city of Dubai With heavy hearts, bidding goodbye to our CS mates Diana and Santiago at midnight, we made our way to the Chavez airport at Bogota, our last destination in the … Read More
Home outside home From the beaches of Mancora in Peru, we got to the concrete jungle, that is Guayaquil, Ecuador early in the morning via a bus that barely held itself together on the 7 hour ride. Hot, humid, dusty … Read More