Heading north from our adventures in La Paz we came to Lake Titicaca. This was and still is an important spiritual centre for people from the Andes. It’s where the sun and moon came from in the Andean creation legend, and where the spirits of the dead go. Tiwanaku Tiwanaku has some of the earliest […]
Festivals
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 […]
Catching Up With Family in Holland
After our adventure in Norway we went to Holland to relax a bit and to catch up with the extended family. We got there in time to celebrate a double birthday party so we got to see the whole extended family. We were also there just in time to see the end of Delfsail which […]
Semana Santa: Holy Week in Spain
Happy (late) Easter to everyone. This year for Easter we didn’t get to have any chocolate eggs or bunnies, since they’re pretty scarce in Spain, but we did get to enjoy the celebrations Spanish style which is to watch the processions. The processions start a week before Easter Sunday and take place every evening/night right […]
Las Fallas: A Festival for Pyromaniacs
Valencia has an awesome festival that they run each year called Las Fallas. Each neighbourhood puts together enormous gravity-defying sculptures of wood, wax and foam which are then burnt a few days later. Each neighbourhood spends the whole year designing, preparing and making the individual parts of the overall sculpture (or falla) and then on […]
