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One of the terraces inside Castello Estense was famous for having its own orange grove.

15 March, 2020 By Amanda

Ferrara – An Underappreciated Gem

It’s been a little while since the last post, and since our adventures through Italy. But I haven’t given up completely on documenting our travels and feel like I have more stories to tell and photos I want to share. So I’m going to keep publishing posts when I can in between having to deal […]

The old fortress overlooking the modern town.

29 October, 2016 By Amanda

The Castles of Southern France

After spending a couple of weeks in the Loire Valley checking out the chateux (castles) and letting Pedr’s arm recover, we then went down to the south of France to meet up with Pedr’s parents and family friend Bob. We kept it fairly low key checking out the old castles in the area, and Pedr’s […]

Sad Pedr after getting back from the hospital.

14 October, 2016 By Amanda

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 […]

A Highlands cow, this one's called Hamish.

31 August, 2016 By Amanda

Beautiful Edinburgh and the Wild Scottish Highlands

We’ve been in Edinburgh for the last month. We came here for the month long Fringe Festival which has comedians and  other acts perform all over the city. We spent the first two weeks taking it easy and seeing a couple of shows each night or some sightseeing. I even joined the local pool and […]

Big Ben at sunset.

11 August, 2016 By Amanda

Old Blighty: Dover to London

After Paris we went to the UK. We thought we’d do it the traditional way; taking a ferry from Calais over to Dover and admiring the famous White Cliffs of Dover as we came in. Unfortunately we didn’t think about what time of day would be a good time to do this so we made […]

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Hi, we're Amanda and Pedr and we think that you don't need to be an athlete or look like a fitness model to be able to enjoy adventurous activities. We're just two regular people who don't fit the young / beautiful / athletic traveller mould, but we're still doing all sorts of adventurous things. Read More

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