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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

We The North

After visiting New York, Toronto was bliss. The food was affordable, the metro navigable and the place names familiarly British. From York University to Don Valley Trail, it was clearly Yorkshire folk who settled in the area. We arrived on […]

Posted on February 16, 2018June 18, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Canada, Round the worldTagged art, basketball, beer, food, graffiti, train, walk6 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
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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

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

Random Posts

  • Travelling by AmtrakTravelling by AmtrakJuly 2, 2018
  • European RussiaEuropean RussiaApril 21, 2017
  • NeedlesNeedlesJanuary 24, 2017

Recent Posts

  • 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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