I’m not sure why, but Ben and I have been into space lately. Strange (for us) but I’m totally getting into it. We started watching “For All Mankind”, which is a very interesting show and got us looking up facts about the space race. Fast forward a couple months and we found ourselves in Florida….
Category: Short Breaks
Explore Athen’s Archaeological Sites
A Quick Trip to Athens to visit the Archaeological Sites I’m so excited to say that we finally made it to Athens to visit the Acropolis. Yes!!! I’ve been fascinated with Greek mythology for some time, and we’ve been trying to do a bit of travel around Greece for several years to see the famous…
Three Days in Istanbul
As we made our way back to London from Albania, we decided to spend a few days in Istanbul. We stayed at a lovely place in the Sultanahmet area. This area turned out to be great. It was a short walk to all the attractions we wanted to visit and there were great food and…
End of the Journey (North UK Series 3 of 3)
Now that we’ve completed the North Coast 500 route we started to make our way back home towards London. This post starts from Inverness heading back towards London. Check out our other posts on the journey north to the NC500 and the NC500 route. In the two weeks we took to get back south to…
Orkney Mainland
While doing the North Coast 500 route we decided to take a side trip to Orkney Mainland. The couple days spent on the island were better than we expected. There is so much to see and do on the island – we really wish we would have planned more days to explore more of the…
North Coast 500 (North UK Series 2 of 3)
Journey Details | 17 Days | 1243.1 Miles Isle of Skye to Applecross – Lochcarron, Bealach na Ba, Applecross Applecross to Shieldaig – Toscaig, Applecross, Shieldaig Shieldaig to Autlbea – Kinlochewe, Redpoint Aultbea to Achiltibuie – Aultbea, Mellon Udrigle Beach, Corrieshalloch Gorge, Loch Broom Broch, Achiltibuie Achiltibuie to Kylestrome – Bone Caves, Ardvreck Castle Kylestrome…
Journey to the North Coast 500 (North UK Series 1 of 3)
We decided we wanted to do the North Coast 500 route along the north coast of Scotland. Since we were planning to drive all the way north, we thought we would take our time getting there (and back) from London. In the two weeks we took to get to Lochcarron to start the NC500 we…
15 Day Itinerary in the West Country (UK)
Day 1 – New Forest National Park New Forest National Park. We left home and headed through the New Forest National Park on our way to Beaulieu. The drive through New Forest was beautiful. Very green and ponies everywhere! The ponies would be in the field next to the road, on the shoulder, or sometimes…
Bath, UK – Quick visit to Bath
We decided to take a quick trip to Bath. We visited Bath in mid-November and had no issues getting tickets or waiting for entry times to any of the attractions. Ticket availability and wait times may be different at other times of the year. We arrived later in the day, too late to visit any…
Sleepy Hollow in October
We just spent a couple of days in Sleepy Hollow, New York (Tarrytown). Yes, Sleepy Hollow, as in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. I really wanted to visit the area in October because of The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze, which is displays showing thousands of carved pumpkins! So Blaze was the reason…