Yesterday was 466 days since returning to the UK, or in other words, 66 weeks and 4 days which has a nice symmetry to it. Looking back we feel very lucky, being able to afford to go travelling, particularly the […]
Travelling by Amtrak
Americans don’t know how good they have it with Amtrak trains, I would go as far as to say that they are wasted on the majority of them. The number of people we met who had never travelled by train […]
Answers on a postcard
I love sending postcards. The aim was to send a postcard to our parents from every city or place we visited as well as sending to friends and extended family along the way. Thank you all to those who gave […]
The most southernly northern city
Sheffield is our home. A year and a month after leaving, we made it back up north on April 10th after spending a couple of weeks with family. It’s taken a while to get settled in again, and we’re still […]
The Reunification Express
Even since watching Michael Palin Full Circle, the one thing above all that I wanted to do in Vietnam was travel by train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. In fact despite the city name change, the trains still […]
The Diamond Capitol of the World
Antwerp was a great city to enter Europe. Being in Belgium we were surrounded by delicious food and beer, and as it is situated in the north of the country we could practice our rusty Dutch. I mean Flemish. Actually […]
Embassies and visas
At first it felt like a logistics nightmare attempting to work out when and where is best to get visas, before we left or on the go? After researching the requirements for every country we thought we might visit, we […]
Home sweet home
On the weekend we finally made it back on British soil after 51 weeks away from home, let’s call it a year. Saturday was a lazy morning, packing our bags for the last time and gathering our thoughts. It’s hard […]
Sweet Carolina (do do doo)
North Carolina was our unexpected last stop in the US, simply because the container ship to Europe left from a place called Wilmington. It was meant to be straight forward to get there too, an overnight train from Miami to […]
Venture Over
Last night we arrived into the port of Antwerp in Belgium. This morning we clambered down the rickety steps on to solid ground, and it couldn’t have come quicker. The Independent Venture was a much smaller vessel than our previous […]
