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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 […]

Posted on April 21, 2018April 18, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Belgium, Round the worldTagged beer, belgium, city, food, museum, river, train journey2 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

The Washington (blog) Post

Washington DC is recommended by all who have been, great for history, food and free museums. They weren’t wrong. After an overnight Greyhound from Toronto to New York, we jumped on a 5 hour bus (or motorcoach as they say […]

Posted on March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, USATagged botanical gardens, food, history, metro, museum, usa6 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

Windy City

We did a lot of walking on our two full days in Chicago, 10 miles the first day and 8 miles the second. It’s my favourite city in the United States (Tucson being my favourite town/small city) and at no […]

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, USATagged art, food, lake, metro, museum, snow, usa6 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

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

One country, two systems

Hong Kong (or Xiānggǎng in Cantonese) was the name of a small fishing village and the island that it was located on. In 1860 it expanded to include the Kowloon Peninsula and then in 1898 it expanded again to include […]

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Mischa
Posted in Hong Kong & Macau, Round the worldTagged botanical gardens, china, city, countryside, hill, museum12 Comments

Between Rivers

The name Hanoi means “Inside [the] river”. It was given this name in 1831 having previously been known as ‘Dragon Belly’, ‘Big Net’ and ‘Eastern Metropolis’, among others. It is apparently sometimes referred to as the Paris of the east, […]

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, VietnamTagged beer, city, countryside, museum, river, train, vietnamLeave a comment

Don’t Miss Saigon

It took us the best part of 3 days to travel from Sapa to Ho Chi Minh City (still often referred to as Saigon or abbreviated to HCMC). The first step was a 6 hour coach ride to Hanoi which, […]

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, VietnamTagged food, journey, memorial, museum, vietnamLeave a comment

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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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