Santa Cruz and Ericeira – Portugal

May 29, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

After spending 4 days in Lisbon, Andrew and I based ourselves in Estremadura for the remainder of our week in Portugal. We wanted to enjoy the sunshine while still have places to go to and visit if we fancied. When exploring the south of Europe this is often how we structure our vacations: half a […]

A day in Peniche, Portugal

May 10, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

During our stay on the Atlantic Coast of Portugal, just north of Lisbon, we decided to explore some of the villages in the region. So on a cloudy morning, we headed north of Vila Louro to Peniche, a town poking out of the coastline into the ocean. We arrived mid-morning in what seemed to be a […]

A week in Barbados

April 29, 2018.Reading time 11 minutes.

Andrew and I were craving some winter sun at the beginning of this year. We needed to go away somewhere warm. So we looked at a map of the world and checked where it was ‘bikini’ warm in February/March and under 9 hours flight. The Caribbean became an obvious destination pretty quickly! Unfortunately, our Plan A […]

Obidos, Portugal

April 8, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Probably one of our favourite places we visited during our stay in Portugal, Obidos is the most picturesque fortified town. The quaint traditional houses, the narrow cobbled streets reminded me a lot of Paraty in Brazil. I just love the Portuguese architecture with the white houses and their colourful trims. Obidos is only an hour […]

4 days in Lisbon

April 3, 2018.Reading time 13 minutes.

Lisbon had been on my list for a long time and, to be perfectly honest, I am not sure what took me so long to visit! In the recent years, Lisbon has become a very trendy destination. The weather is good, prices are affordable, the food and bar scenes are excellent and there are some decent sights […]

4 days in Istanbul

February 15, 2018.Reading time 13 minutes.

Where the West meets the East, the great city of Istanbul is an amazing destination. Some of you may immediately think that with the recent events it is not very safe to visit, but we visited in between two incidents and if it wasn’t for the news we would have never known that something was happening. I […]

2 days in Osaka and Nara

February 1, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

The last stop on my Japan itinerary is Osaka with a day trip to Nara. We didn’t expect much of Osaka to be completely honest, the feedback we got from most people before we went was that there wasn’t much to do. Sometimes though, you have to experience things for yourself to make your own opinion, […]

2 days in Hiroshima

January 25, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Hiroshima was made famous on the 6th August 1945 for very unfortunate reasons, and most of the pictures I had seen from the place were devastation scenes in my history books at school. I had absolutely no idea what to expect, and I was in for a surprise… Modern Hiroshima is nothing like the history […]