Days not Homeless: 5 Years, 106 Days ...and loving every second of this alpine adventure!
Turkey Minus the Tourists
PENDING... Dates January 9th - January 25th 2016 I think that with trial and error both my photography and website design are getting progressively better so hopefully these newer, better quality images will inspire you to get out there and travel. Click HERE to see...
A City Divided
Almost everywhere we go is by one-way ticket, Edinburgh being no exception, so now we had to find the cheapest way of traveling from Scotland back to Turkey for unfinished business. The big airlines were way too expensive, Pegasus, the cheap Turkish airline only...
Hogmanay
It took over forty years to make it to Edinburgh, inexcusable being that it’s barely eighty miles over the English border and only 300 miles from my hometown of Leicester. Scotland was also to be Andrea’s fifteenth new country of our extended European tour. A short...
Europe meets Asia
East meets west, Europe meets Asia, TwoGoGlobal meets one of the worlds most cultural cities. We were both excited about the few weeks we would get to spend in Turkey, even if it was at the height of winter and terrorism threats! Our first stop was to the sprawling...
Beaches, Mountains and Ancient Landmarks Abound
PENDING... Cats and their love of them Figs and our love of them Peloponessos Athens Delphi Meteora Dates November 20th – November 26th 2015 December 6th – December 19th 2015 I think that with trial and error both my photography and website design are getting...
Out of Season in the Greek Islands
PENDING... Santorini Thira to Oia walk Lucky’s Giros Paros Discovery by bus - Noussas Syros Capital of the Cyclades Galissas ghost town Tinos Car rental for the day – Pirgios, Panoramos, Valox Pilgrimage Dates November 26th – December 6th 2015 I think that with trial...
Twenty Four Hours in Venice
PENDING... Outrageous tolls Dates November 19th – November 20th 2015 I think that with trial and error both my photography and website design are getting progressively better so hopefully these newer, better quality images will inspire you to get out there and travel....
Slovenia, the Heart of Europe
PENDING... Dates November 14th – November 19th 2015 I think that with trial and error both my photography and website design are getting progressively better so hopefully these newer, better quality images will inspire you to get out there and travel. Click HERE to...
The Very Best of the Adriatic Sea
PENDING... Dates November 4th – November 10th 2015 November 13th – November 14th 2015 I think that with trial and error both my photography and website design are getting progressively better so hopefully these newer, better quality images will inspire you to get out...
Bullet Holes & Bosnian Coffee
PENDING... Dates November 10th – November 13th 2015 I think that with trial and error both my photography and website design are getting progressively better so hopefully these newer, better quality images will inspire you to get out there and travel. Click HERE to...
“W” Circuit
This was my first multi-day trek with camping and I was really apprehensive about the “camping” part of it. I’m not much of a camper, but I’m trying to learn to enjoy it more. Wayne promised me we wouldn’t have to prepare our own meals as we could get them from the...
Patagonia
Wayne and I have been anxiously waiting to get to Patagonia to enjoy the cooler weather. We packed our down jackets for South America and we really wanted to use them. It was going to be a nice reprieve from the heat and humidity of Brazil. We flew from Puerto Iguazu,...
Iguazu Falls
Wednesday night, February 27th, we took the bus from Ipanema to the Rio International Airport with 3 hours until our flight. However, the bus made numerous stops causing us to arrive with little time to spare. We were fortunate that we had some assistance from the GOL...
Paraty
We headed to Paraty on February 17th by rental car since we were with friends from Virginia, Jeff and Colleen for the week. Paraty has become a popular tourist area in recent years, renowned for the historic town and the coast and mountains in the region. It’s an...
Around Rio
Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar) We headed to Sugarloaf on the 511 bus from Ipanema around 8am. I had to be back for work at 11am and Jeff and Colleen were arriving from DC at 10:30 so it needed to be a quick trip! We were concerned that we may not have enough time...
Carnaval – Sambodromo
Another “must do” on our list was to visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during Carnaval. The city and its suburbs are crawling with locals and foreigners. The buses are packed with people traveling from bloco to bloco (a bloco is a block party – some with just a few people...
Homeward bound
It took almost ten and a half hours to get from Belize City to Cancun by the ADO overnight bus. We arrived at the northern border town of Santa Elena in Belize around 11pm. It was the most expensive departure tax of our 100 plus day trip by far - $18.75pp. After...
Belize, the Good, the Bad and the Hot
We were concerned if we would have enough time to see the Tikal ruins in Guatemala, get to the border to cross into Belize and get to our accommodation 10 miles outside of San Ignacio all in the same day - no problem! The first town we encountered after crossing the...
Semuc Champey and the Peten Region
A long weekend of travel was awaiting us – 8 hours from Antigua to Lanquin on Friday, then another 8 hours from Lanquin to Flores on Sunday. Both trips were on a small van sized ‘turismo’ shuttle with 14-16 passengers. They were cramped to say the least! Leaving...
Antigua, we will return
Unfortunately we didn't allocate enough time in Antigua. It's the previous capital of Guatemala with a thriving language school and tourist population overlooked by Volcan de Agua with Acatenango, Fuego and Pacaya volcanoes very close by. After previously travelling...
Xela and the surrounding area
It was my decision to head to Quetzaltenango, Xela for short, because I had planned on furthering my Spanish education (really just throwing money down the drain). Xela is a very popular place for this, unlike Antigua, it's not full of foreigners and English is not on...
Markets Galore
The must see market town in Guatemala’s western highlands, Chichicastenango, is rammed full of local produce and artesanial products, aimed primarily at the influx of tourists that arrive every Thursday and Sunday morning from the surrounding towns. We headed there on...
Volcan Santa Maria
This was to be the first of two local volcanoes I was planning on hiking with Altiplanos Tours. Santa Maria, an active volcano in the Quetzaltenango area at an altitude of 3772m and Volcan Santiaguito which was created from an eruption of Santa Maria in 1902. Volcan...
The Beauty of Agua
Lake Atitlan is absolutely beautiful, at an altitude of 4,500ft with uniquely distinct villages and towns scattered around its shores! There are 3 volcanoes that rise up from the edge of the water and tower 6,000ft above the lake, Volcan San Pedro, Toliman and...
Trip from Esteli, Nicaragua to Panajachel, Guatemala
We arrived in Leon on December 26, 2012. We both immediately knew that Leon was not for us. We had already spent 4 weeks in the city of Granada (a week extra for Dengue Fever) and it was now time for some beautiful mountain scenery on a lake - hopefully without all...
El Dengue!
So here we were, 24 hours before flying to the Corn Islands for a Christmas ‘vacation’ and Andrea just got admitted into a Nicaraguan hospital with Dengue Fever! Can someone please remind me what use mosquitoes are to the planet again? This is certainly not a pretty...
The best of Granada
We’re sadly leaving Granada on Friday afternoon, after spending 20 days here. We have had a wonderful time exploring the city and surrounding areas, but we’re ready for a change. We'll be flying from Managua to Little Corn Island, Nicaragua in the Caribbean for a...
Granada, around and about
Wayne and I arrived in the colonial city of Granada on Sunday, December 2nd. After getting lost in the municipal market and having a nice man help us with our location we eventually found La Perla, our home for the next 3 weeks. From the street this place looks like...
Volcan Concepción
Isla de Ometepe, the largest island on a lake in the world is formed by two volcanoes in the middle of Lake Nicaragua. We chose to stay in Moyogalpa, the islands largest town as it’s the base camp for the climb up Volcan Concepcion which we had planned for Saturday,...
Getting from La Fortuna, Costa Rica to Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua
We left La Fortuna in Costa Rica on Monday morning and got an 8am bus to Florencia where we only had to wait around 15 minutes for the bus to Los Chiles. After walking through town we found Rio San Juan and paid an official looking guy 60 Colons each for a port fee...
