After the animal filled Galapagos Islands, and the lush cloud forests of Ecuador we went to a completely different landscape: the high altitude, dry, barren landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The main town (for tourists anyway) is San Pedro and this is actually a green(ish) oasis in the middle of the desert. All the […]
Adventure Travel
The Amazing and Incredible Galapagos Islands – Part 2
Since there wasn’t enough space to fit into one post all the photos of what the Galapagos has to offer, here is Part 2 for you. (If you haven’t seen Part 1 you can see it here) Day 5 – Isabela Isabela Island is the biggest island in the Galapagos so we made a few […]
The Amazing and Incredible Galapagos Islands – Part 1
I’m going to stay it straight away. The Galapagos Islands are the most amazing and incredible place we have seen in our lives. We spent 8 days here cruising around the islands on a boat, which meant we got to visit some of the more distant islands. But even in the populated islands, and near […]
Chasing a White Christmas
One of the things I really wanted to see while we were in Europe was snow at Christmas. Pedr was a bit less excited seeing as he’d already had quite a few Christmases in Canada where it can snow as early as October. So we decided to head to Zermatt in the Swiss Alps where […]
How Not to Bike Around the Loire Valley
We decided to do a week long biking trip around the Loire Valley to see the famous chateaux. As many of you know that didn’t go so well and ended up with Pedr breaking his arm. He’s doing a lot better now (thanks for asking), but that wasn’t the only thing that went wrong on […]
