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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
