Who doesn’t like Top Ten lists? Or top five, or top three. We certainly whiled away many quiet moments in our year putting together idle lists of our favourite and least favourite things that we had encountered on the way. I’m putting them in the blog to help us remember all this stuff, and also » » »
Archive for August, 2011
10 August 2011
List mania
Tags: accommodation, adventure, food, hiking, markets, snorkelling, temples, transport, wildlife
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3 August 2011
Back home
Today we went for a walk near Ludlow and saw red deer, fallow deer, buzzards, kestrel and a truly enormous hare. Last week without particularly trying we saw rabbits, squirrels and a fox as well as woodpeckers, rooks, bluetits and gold finches that look like minature toucan barbets. So who says Britain has hardly any » » »
Tags: home
3 August 2011
The final route
Gosh, we didn’t change very much. Apart from fiddling around with our arrival in New Zealand so that we were visiting in autumn rather than winter (well worth it) we didn’t change a single leg of our Round-the-World ticket. We did add two additional countries to our original list, though. Having arrived in Chile and » » »
Tags: itinerary, travelling
3 August 2011
Travelling light
I think we can definitely recommend travelling light. Passing through airports or wandering around tourist towns with a backpack on my shoulders and a satchel at my side I felt much freer than either the ones lugging enormous suitcases on wheels or those hefting super-sized backpacks on their back and another almost as big on » » »
Tags: equipment, travelling
3 August 2011
South America budget update
Bolivia, Budget updates, Chile, Ecuador, Peru
Written by Maureen Chile We spent just over three weeks in Chile. We had heard that Chile was an expensive country to visit compared to the rest of South America and, in our experience, this is probably true. On the other hand, Chile is a developed country with good infrastructure and we felt very safe » » »
3 August 2011
Ecuador nutshell
Ecuador has a handful of really cool things tucked into a small country, although the two main draws – the Galapagos and the Amazon – cannot be visited cheaply. It’s got an attractive capital city, friendly people, half-decent food and lots of scenery. It is also fairly warm, as you’d expect from a country straddling » » »