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Author: Mischa

Mischa’s Belgian Waffle

This was not our first visit to Brussels. Because it is located at the end of the eurostar line we’d been to the station many times before on trips to Amsterdam and further afield. If you want to go east […]

Posted on May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Belgium, Round the worldTagged beer, belgium, botanical gardens, city, park, statue5 Comments

Crossing the Pond

The journey across the Atlantic was a significantly different experience from our other ocean crossing, largely because the Independent Venture was half the size and 10 years older than the G Washington which had taken us across the Pacific. The […]

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Belgium, Cargo ship, Round the world, USATagged atlantic, belgium, cargoship, snow, usa5 Comments

South Beach, Bringing the Heat

I’ll begin this blog with one of the first things I learned about Miami after we arrived, maybe it will be a new piece of information for the readers, maybe it won’t. Miami and Miami Beach are two different places. […]

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, USATagged basketball, beach, botanical gardens, city, memorial, metro, museum, usa6 Comments

Transatlantic, Less Than Frantic

It’s about that time. Today we board the Independent Venture in Wilmington, North Carolina for our home continent. In 11 days time, if everything goes to plan, we will arrive into Antwerp and then four days later catch the train […]

Posted on March 9, 2018July 3, 2019 by Mischa
Posted in Belgium, News, Round the world, Transport, USATagged cargoship29 Comments

Life in a haystack

For our fifth workaway of the trip we house sat a straw bale house in Ontario. The owner was away studying in Toronto for three days a week and because the house was completely off grid it needed someone to […]

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Canada, Round the world, WorkawayTagged canada, countryside, offgrid, snow, workaway7 Comments

In a New York minute

We arrived into the Big Apple by train from Chicago. The line is named the Lakeshore Limited because it skirts the shore of Lake Erie as far as Rochester and then heads south east, eventually meeting the Hudson River which […]

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, USATagged basketball, city, ferry, museum, train, usa2 Comments

There’s a pyramid on the Mississippi

I have to admit that my reasons for wanting to visit Memphis were tenuous at best. I’ve always liked the Paul Simon lyric “for reasons I cannot explain there’s some part of me wants to see Graceland”, the song Walking […]

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, USATagged basketball, bus, city, museum, usaLeave a comment

Bienvenue à New Orleans

We arrived into New Orleans late. After my first Amtrak train had dropped us off an hour early I guess things needed to be brought back to reality. My second picked us up 2 hours late from Tucson and then […]

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, USATagged basketball, city, food, hostel, parade, usa2 Comments

It’s Always Sunny in Los Angeles

For the first time I find myself writing a blog about a city that I am confident 90% of readers will have seen in some detail. This city has featured in popular culture so prominently over the last half a […]

Posted on January 18, 2018April 4, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, USATagged basketball, beach, city, food, museum, usa6 Comments

It looks a million Patacas

I have never felt as seasick as I did on the ferry to Macau. Rosanna felt the same way. It was called the “turbojet” and it makes the trip from Hong Kong in 50 minutes. They were 50 long minutes […]

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Mischa
Posted in Hong Kong & Macau, Round the worldTagged castle, china, city, hillLeave a comment

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Travelling without flying

From March 2017 to March 2018 we backpacked around the world without catching a single aeroplane. This blog contains our experiences and stories, from surprises to delights, plus some tips on how we travelled flight-free.

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In the Beginning

  • London to LuxembourgLondon to LuxembourgMarch 31, 2017

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  • Food for thought July 4, 2019
  • Travelling by Amtrak July 2, 2018
  • Answers on a postcard June 20, 2018
  • The most southernly northern city June 13, 2018
  • Mischa’s Belgian Waffle May 15, 2018
  • The Reunification Express May 6, 2018
  • The Diamond Capitol of the World April 21, 2018
  • Embassies and visas April 18, 2018
  • Crossing the Pond April 2, 2018
  • Home sweet home March 28, 2018

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