Before I write up my final blog post, I wanted to provide an overview of our travels: Duration: 319 days, over 110 moves, 40+ hotels, 25+...

As our flight from Barcelona touched down in Gatwick in mid-March, we could only wonder where our bags were, and how long before we would...

As I mentioned in our Palermo post, as we were leaving Sicily, we started to see signs of the COVID pandemic. People were wearing masks...

During our half day drive from Agrigento on Sicily’s South coast to Palermo on the North coast, we made several stops at some villages...

After a very enjoyable and peaceful stay in Taormina, we were off to Agrigento. We left Taormina by train (from the Godfather train...

We arrived in Taormina late in the afternoon of February 16th, and paid a cab driver way too much to take us from the train station on...

We departed from the ferry building on Feb 13th and weaved our way through the morning rush hour traffic….or at least our driver was...

We arrived in Naples on February 9th, after an unassuming train ride down from Rome. There was some nice countryside, but I thought we...

After a wonderful trip through Spain with my Mom, and after I finally recovered from my horrible respiratory infection, we were off to...

Everyone I know who has visited multiple cities in Spain told me that Barcelona was their favorite… and now I know why. The city is...

We arrived by train from Madrid mid-day, took a quick uber ride to our AirBNB and, since we were too early to check in, dropped off our...

We arrived in Madrid on a rather cold, rainy day and, after getting hopelessly lost in the airport, we finally made our way to the uber...

We landed in Lisbon on a nice, cool evening in mid-January and were picked up by a van arranged by our AirBNB host. The apartment was in...

We arrived early (and I mean early) the morning of December 27th into Gatwick airport.

After being on the go, sightseeing in Buenos Aires and Ushuaia, hiking in El Chalten, it was finally time to chill out a bit in El...

We flew from Ushuaia to El Calafate, a good-sized town on the south side of beautiful Lake Argentino. This is the main airport for those...

As I mentioned in my last post (Buenos Aires), sometime early on in our world travels, Jos came up with a great idea to visit this city...

We didn't know what to expect arriving in this large city, as it was the first time either of us have been in South America. The main...

After spending a day around Lake Taupo, we headed NE for the Coromandel Peninsula. On our way, we stopped by a beautiful waterfall and...

My wonderful partner Joslyn booked us on a 2day trek down in Southern NZ but we were not able to take that trek, so we did some quick...