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7 October 2022 We had started out this trip on a cruise around the Norwegian fjords and what we particularly appreciated about it -...

1 October 2022 It was time to get out of the city and explore the fabulous-looking nature around it. We took a rental car and headed off...

30 September 2022 Victoria is a 95-minute BC Ferries trip from Tsawwassen, the ferry terminal south of Vancouver, to Swartz Bay, on...

25 September 2022 On leaving Montreal, our original plan had been to check out Canada’s eastern seaboard - Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince...

21 September 2022 After having spent the whole summer almost exclusively under sunny, cloudless skys, the rain finally caught up with us...

15 September 2022 About 700,000 gallons of water go over Niagara Falls every second. It would have been travesty to visit Toronto and not...

14 September 2022 To avoid the exorbitant downtown hotel rates, we rented an Air B&B property in a Toronto suburb, Scarborough, about a...

9 September 2022 We started our North American trip in little, quaint Cambridge before moving on to its busier, brasher neighbour on the...

7 September 2022 Day one: Leaving Bucharest, we headed straight up the autostrada towards the village of Bran (a three-hour drive) and...

1st September 2022 Our first impression of Bucharest, as we arrived downtown in the bus from the airport, was one of a rather large,...

10 August 2022. An hour and half on the train north-east of Munich lies Regensburg, a relatively small but charming Unesco World Heritage...

9 August 2022. A train ticket that could be used to travel anywhere in Germany (except on the ICE high-speed trains) and valid for a...

23 July 2022. Kyrgyzstan was the final stop on our tour of the Stans. Each Stan (literally «land») had its own particularity, its own...

(*local tourist slogan) 17 July 2022. Most Central Asian states have a unique selling point. For Uzbekistan it’s antiquity, for...

12 July 2022 Our routine arriving at an airport in Central Asia, after clearing customs, was to buy a local SIM card in the arrivals hall...

9 July 2022. Along with Khiva and Samarkand, Bukhara is one of Uzbekistan's showpieces. It is also Central Asia’s holiest city, with...

5 July 2022 Samarkand being only a 35km taxi ride away from the frontier with Tajikistan, we decided to spend a few days in this next...

3 July 2022 The journey from Tashkent to Samarkand was probably our least memorable experience in Central Asia. The fast train (2 hours)...

30 June 2022 When we arrived in Tashkent on our Uzbekistan Airways flight from Tblisi, the temperature was 43 Celcius as we left the...

24 June 2022 Christianity spread to the former Kingdom of Armenia soon after the death of Jesus, though it took until the early 4th...