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Amaru

Enjoying the beach at Mystery Island!

We arrived at Mystery Island in the early morning, whilst we were still sleeping, and the cruise ship anchored offshore, as this location doesn’t have a deep-water pier available. Whilst having breakfast at the top level of the ship, we were greeted by the sparkling turquoise waters, the beautiful beach …

Cruising the South Pacific!

We have not done a cruise before and to be totally honest, we have been a bit against it, however based upon the many positive reviews we kept hearing about it from a number of friends we decided to try at least one. After some research between the different companies …

Coron

A houseboat on Coron Island!

After a very short flight from El Nido, we touched down at the Francisco B. Reyes Airport on Busuanga Island. During this trip to the Philippines, We only travelled with carry-on-bags, however at El Nido, as the plane was very small, we were asked to check in anything larger than …

Relaxing in Boracay

We left Bohol and Alona Beach, looking forward to the next part of our journey with the island of Boracay next on the itinerary. To get here, we first caught a flight from Panglao island to Manila where we only had a short turnaround before we were on our next …

berlin

Beers, Sausages and History

In researching flights to Europe we had found that the itinerary with the least (and shortest lay-over) would take us to Berlin. As such, our travels to Europe on this trip started and finished in Germany.  After two lengthy flights, starting with Melbourne to Singapore where we had 5 hours …

morocco

The Medinas in the Medina

Tangier, Morocco and Northern Africa is only a short trip away from Southern Spain and as we had a number of days available to us we decided that the time to explore not only our first African nation but also our first Arab nation.  In planning this trip, we had …