Here’s me at sunrise at Chott el Djerid, a large endorheic salt lake in southern Tunisia. It’s an eerie, atmospheric landscape of white, green and purple that shimmers into the horizon. It’s an otherwordly feeling place, almost as if you’ve landed on the surface of an alien planet. We visited it on route to MatmataContinue reading “Salt flats, troglodytes & camels.”
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Tunisia 2005
Another random travel experience picked out of the memory hat now – a fantastic trip to Tunisia with a friend I studied with on my journalism MA at Sheffield University way back when . . . This trip has to count as my first ever “exotic” holiday. Everything before this was fairly safe and relativelyContinue reading “Tunisia 2005”
Drizzley Derbyshire
Much as we enjoy travelling to exotic,warm and far flung destinations, we don’t have the time or money to always be heading abroad. But lucky for us we have the delights of Derbyshire and the Peak District on our doorstep. So last weekend we headed out to explore some of the sights within a stonesContinue reading “Drizzley Derbyshire”
Long weekend in London
Putting aside thoughts of more exotic travel for the time being, we are heading to London over the long April weekend. London is big. And confusing. Like this map that looks like coloured string in a washing machine spin cycle. Being simple country folks based in scenic Derbyshire we do enjoy a trip to theContinue reading “Long weekend in London”
Thought of the day
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Lin Yutang
Places to see before you die
Trawling Facebook as I do on occasion, I came across an app titled The Travel List Challenge that invited you to rate how you compared against other people’s travelling history. All keen and excited I decided to take part and see how many sights I had clapped eyes on, confident that I would score prettyContinue reading “Places to see before you die”
Envy envy envy
As much as I am looking forward to my next travel adventure, and am aware of how much I have already seen, I can never hear of other people’s travel plans without at least a tremour of envy. So this post should be entitled “Places I really really want to go! NOW” You can blame my sisterContinue reading “Envy envy envy”
Another slide show for your delight!
In celebration of going back to Italy this year I’ve just added another Tripwow slide show covering the three Italian trips I’ve taken over the past five years. There’s Rome, Venice and last year’s multi city extravaganza! TripWow is pretty cool, it’s really easy to use, you just select photos off your Facebook albums, add yourContinue reading “Another slide show for your delight!”
Back to Rome, who’d a thought it!
Well, what a turn up for the books, after swearing blind to the other half for the past five years that I “never go anywhere twice as there is some much more I want to see . .” what are we doing? Yeap heading back to Rome, my all time favourite city to date. WhatContinue reading “Back to Rome, who’d a thought it!”
Vatican museum and the Gallery of Maps
Determined to get Neil into something cultural we head for the Vatican Museums. Well, we go round the corner from St Peters and slap bang into an EPIC queue! We stand in a queue that stretches forever, in total we probably wait about two hours to get into the Vatican museums, but I am determinedContinue reading “Vatican museum and the Gallery of Maps”