No, not that City of Angels, we’re in “Krung Thep” meaning “City of Angels” and better known as…. Bangkok! And this is just a shortened version of its official Thai name. If we were to translate it all we would end up with: “Great City of Angels, Repository of Divine …
As we mentioned in our last blog we decided to do a short day trip to Slovenia and its capital, Ljubljana. Since we already had the train tickets we just showed up at the train station in Zagreb, grabbed a quick breakfast and then jumped on our train early to …
Arriving in Split was a bit of an anticlimax, we’d had so much fun on the islands in the Adriatic sea! But, all good things come to an end… Since Alex and Laura were catching an overnight train to Zagreb that evening they were not going to be out looking …
Arriving in Hvar, all of us still wanted to see if we could arrange accommodation together in the same house and decided to look for the people offering rooms. It seems that we didn’t have to worry though, on every other port here in Croatia there has always been 3-4 …
After a few days in Dubrovnik the time had come for us to move on, unfortunately that meant that we had to split up our group as well. Carl and Karine stayed in Dubrovnik and Sylvain just caught the catamaran with us to the island of Mjet for a day …
To get to Croatia we had to catch a ferry to Dubrovnik from Bari. We arrived in Bari around 8pm and had no real clue on where to move on from here. Luckily, we managed to spot a few other people walking around the train station with backpacks that looked …
While researching the different ways of getting to Positano we found out that most people recommended to take the train to Naples, change to the local train which takes you to Sorrento and the from there take the bus. This all sounded way too complicated, could this place really be …
Realising that the Vatican is actually a sovereign state (it might be the worlds smallest one but it’s still one) we figured that it deserved its own blog, so here we go! As we mentioned in our last blog, during one of our walks of Rome we ended up at …
A classical saying is that all roads lead to Rome… and here we are! Suz has been to Rome before, but that was a good 8 years ago so she was looking forward to revisiting sites, and seeing new ones… I’ve never been here, so it was all definately new …
We left Florence and caught a train that took us to La Spezia, here we changed to a local train and 8 min later the train arrived at our destination, Riomaggiore. Riomaggiore is the first of five villages that make up the Cinque Terre, a Unesco World Heritage site, national …