Despite a pandemic, I managed to tick off 30 countries before I turned 30 with 18 months to spare! Here’s my round up starting with my number one country. Best for: adventures, wildlife, beaches, road trips Last visited: December 2022-January 2023 Best places: Monteverde, La Fortuna, Tamarindo, Santa Teresa Costa Rica had to take the … More 30 before 30 – completed!
When travel restrictions came in earlier this year, I didn’t see me adding to my list of new countries any time soon. With a week of annual leave to use, Daz and I had been watching the quarantine lists to try and work out where to go and 5 days before departure, we booked a … More Sweden 2020 – 26 by 26
I like to read back on our previous travels, such as last time we were in Rhodes 4 years ago, and this trip is definitely our most memorable holiday to date. After a few cancelled trips, this was our first international trip since the start of the pandemic and after 7 and a half years … More A very special return to Rhodes 2020
So… 2020 plans… I ended the last blog post saying how many exciting travels we had coming up – my travel plans for the start of the year involved me having a maximum of 2 weeks in the UK at a time, due to lots of work trips and our big trip that was booked … More Life in lockdown
Before heading to Iceland, both Daz and I kept saying, ‘I don’t think we’ll feel that cold, we did Chicago last year after the Polar Vortex and we were fine.’ Fast forward to standing outside in a field at 11.30pm attempting (and failing) to see the Northern Lights in 51mph winds and -10 temperatures, we … More Another level of cold – Iceland 2020
Since getting back from France three weeks ago, things have been non-stop, with heatwaves, trips to see family and a promotion for both me and Dazza; however, as the train lines in the UK have completely died in the heatwave, I couldn’t actually get to London today for work… meaning I finally have time to … More A few days in French paradise
For about a month before going to Chicago, Darren and I were glued to the news of the polar vortex that had hit Chicago bringing temperatures down to -25 Celcius and -46 Celcius with the windchill. This was when we began to question whether this was why our flights out to Chicago in February had … More The windy (snowy) city- Chicago 2019
After a long summer of work for both Daz and I and with Slovenia ending up being such an active holiday, Daz and I were overdue a lying-by-the-pool-doing-nothing holiday. We went to Puerto Del Carmen in Lanzarote. Admittedly, neither of us had high expectations for Lanzarote as we normally like to go to random places … More Lanzarote 2018
The drive to Bled was stunning, so many rivers and mountains. Dazza did well at driving with only one or two instances when he forgot he was supposed to be driving on the other side of the road! We checked into our apartment and met Luca our host who gave us so many great tips … More Slovenia part 2 – Lake Bled
I hope you’re sitting comfortably because I am really going to go on about how much I LOVED Slovenia. When Daz and I said to people at work that we were going to Slovenia, a few people seemed a bit confused and said, ‘well what’s there’ or ‘that’s a bit random’ but Daz and I … More Ljubljana – no I have no idea how to say it either.
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