If you are as fortunate as we were and get up there early in the morning for the castle opening at 10am, the light will be just right to get some truly spectacular photos over Lake Como. We are currently staying in Calolziocorte and we jumped on the train to Lecco, changed trains to Varenna […]
When it comes to travelling, we tend to choose accommodation that is economical, be it an Airbnb apartment or a great hotel deal we’ve seen online. This isn’t because we’re penny pinchers, but simply due to the fact that we want to stay in places longer, and if you’re accommodation isn’t draining your bank account, […]
Last week, we arrived in Rome around 1:45pm having got the train from Ciampino to Termini. We’d already booked our night in an apartment suite just next to the Vatican, so we decided to walk from Termini, straight down Via Cavour, which eventually spits you out between the Colosseum and Vittorio Emanuele monument. Having flown […]
Keep your hair on, I mean wildlife people! If you’re like me, you might be thinking that Australia is awash with snakes and spiders just waiting to jump out at you and you will no doubt have heard the advice of checking under the toilet seat (which I did religiously) just in case a redback […]
I am not a morning person, I will be the first to admit this, so when Martin advises me that we’d need to be up and out for 5am to go and watch the sunrise, I immediately tried to figure out how many hours of z’s I was actually going to get that night, I […]
Going to Australia had been on my bucket list for a long, long time after spending over a decade listening to Martin and his old uni friends talk about their gap year in this magical place called “Manly” and it seemed important to me to experience this place first hand so I could see what […]