This year my family and I went on a big trip to five countries in Africa. In this blog post I will focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. When we arrived in South Africa it was late at night so almost the first thing we did was go to bed. Read more…
During our trip to Greece, one must-visit spot for us was Ancient Olympia on the Peloponnese peninsula. Especially exciting was visiting right as Olympic fever was ramping up for the Summer Olympics in Japan. We definitely felt the Olympic fever (and no, it wasn’t COVID 😉 ) Ancient Olympia We Read more…
Hello – we are still here! We have just been in a bit of a travel slump lately. Actually, let me rephrase that, we have been in a travel BAN lately! We spent a large chunk of the last school year stuck in the Granada province here in Spain. Being Read more…
Our second stop in Uruguay would also be our last stop in Uruguay, and our second-to-last stop on our whole South American adventure. We’ve been to a lot of amazing places in the continent and enjoyed both roads – the one more traveled and the one less traveled. In Uruguay, Read more…
New country, new spelling of Iguazu and something new and different for this blog post… Puerto Iguazu is a small Argentinian town that sits on the border with both Brazil and Paraguay. The Iguazu Falls, especially on the Argentinian side, are truly spectacular and do earn the moniker of “Natural Read more…
We knew we’d come crashing down to earth after our stay in Rio, which came complete with nice hotel and chocolates on the pillow. What we didn’t know, however, was quite how hard that CRASH back into reality would be… With heavy heart and heavy luggage, we dragged ourselves away Read more…
We really weren’t reaching for an alliterative title here – Rio was fun. The city was fun and happening, the people were always having fun and we all had fun too. More on the fun later, however, first we had work to do! We had to bag our fifth modern Read more…
We hadn’t originally planned to go to Brazil at all on this trip, but a few weeks ago a couple of things happened: First, we realized we might never be back to South America. No offense to an entire continent, but we were doing some really awesome adventures and at Read more…
At just under two weeks, our stop in Cusco, Peru would be the longest of our South America trip so far…and we needed it! It had been almost three months since we left Spain (halfway through our six months of travel) and travel fatigue was setting in. Sadly, we got Read more…
In our plans for our trip to South America, a visit to the New World Wonder of Machu Picchu was a must do. We had spent a week in Ollantaytambo, which is conveniently located near the train station that would take us to the bus stop at Aguas Calientes that Read more…