A Day Trip to Colonia!

“Take a day trip to Colonia!” offered all the tourist stands in Buenos Aires. “Do a day trip to Colonia,” said both friends and family who had themselves done one. “The best day trip from Buenos Aires,” recommended TripAdvisor. If you only had time for a day trip to Colonia it would be worth doing … Continue reading →

Incredible Iguazu

For some people it’s the sight of hundreds of thousands of litres of water, pouring over the waterfall that does it. But for me it was the sound, the thundering of water falling over the waterfalls, plummeting into the river below that took my breath away. I hadn’t expected the roaring to be so impressive. … Continue reading →

Finding Magic in Buenos Aires

I love that feeling when you step off a plane and feel like you’ve arrived in another world. But I might have read too much magic realism before arriving in Buenos Aires. I was expecting to step into a world where streets turned into labyrinths, for food to have magical powers and for dreams and … Continue reading →

Always Say Yes to Athens

“Don’t bother with Athens,” they said. “Skip it and fly straight to the Greek Islands,” they said. “It’s a tourist trap,” they said. “You’ll just spend hours in queues to see ruins, which you can see anywhere,” they said. But I beg to differ. After a sleepless night on a ferry from Kythera, I was … Continue reading →

Paradise on Kythera

“We are about to arrive in paradise. If this is your final destination, please prepare to disembark shortly,” is what the captain should have announced as we pulled into the port of Kythera. What he really said was more along the lines of “Welcome to Kythera, please take all your belongings with you,” leaving us … Continue reading →

Greek Getaways

Swimming at sunset, swimming at sunrise, swimming on our own private beach. Washing back melitzanosalata, saganaki, grilled fish and greek salad with a swig of ouzo, watching local families dine at 10pm in the square of this little village near the port of Gytheio. Sometimes it’s the most unplanned, the most unexpected places that take … Continue reading →

Meteora Rocks

When the big decision you have to make is whether to visit Meteora or whether to visit Delphi, you know you’re pretty lucky. After some expert advice from a lovely 85 year-old grandma, we decided on Meteora. And as you would expect from someone with a lifetime of wisdom to share, we were not set … Continue reading →

Statues and Skopje

Statues. That’s what’s up in Skopje. Literally. Continue reading →

One Summer in Kosovo

Most summers I end up at the beach. In New Zealand, I’ll end up at a small house by the sea. When I lived in Italy, it was the lakes up north, Lago Maggiore and Lago di Como. When I lived in Korea, I made a trip to Fukuoka, Japan, to be by the sea. … Continue reading →