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A Moment of Reflection
To be honest, when we arrived back in Europe on April 11th, I wasn’t thrilled. It felt like a signal that the trip was over. Or close to. We had spent the better part of a decade exploring Europe so it felt like the new, exciting, challenging, unknown travel was coming to an end. And…
More Seoul, Less Spring
We stayed a total of 7 days in Seoul and my previous post covered the first 3 days. We enjoyed lovely blue skies and springtime temps, enhanced of course by the blocking trees every where we looked, for the first four days. Then winter arrived. LOL Well, I guess it was typical spring weather in…
Spring in Seoul
On Saturday, April 4th, we woke up at 4:30am for a 5:00am pick-up for our flight from Bali to Seoul. We were staying in three different hotel rooms, so when we met up in the lobby, we found out that both Hannah and Olivia had gotten sick overnight. Hence began the hardest travel day of…
Week Two in Bali
We spent our second week in Bali in the well-known area of Ubud. We stayed at a lovely villa with a small private pool and larger community one. It was a wonderful oasis amidst a chaotic, hot and humid and crowded surrounding. We did a bit more exploring in Ubud than in Sanur, venturing out…
A “Vacation” during our “Trip”
On March 22, we left Australia and started what, in my mind, is the last part of our trip. The first part was everything I had planned before we left Germany (from Greece to Vietnam, end of July through early November) to countries we had not visited before and where everything was new and different.…
Exploring Sydney
We spent one week enjoying the beauty of Sydney, including from the balcony of our little apartment. I didn’t have high hopes for our place because it was the cheapest one I could find in the area we wanted (and it wasn’t cheap!) but it turned out to be good. A bit run-down and small…
Our Week in Perth
We spent a lovely week in Perth last week, exploring the city, visiting more amazing beaches, and, most of all, enjoying time with some dear friends that moved there over four years ago from California. It was wonderful to see them again! And really nice to have locals giving us tips and taking us to…
Australia Road Trip: Margaret River
The final week of our road trip didn’t involve very much road tripping. On Friday, February 27th, we drove from Albany to Margaret River with two spectacular stops. The first one was Elephant Rocks in William Bay National Park and the second was the Valley of the Giants tree top trail. Elephant Rocks and Green…
Australia Road Trip: Week Four
On Friday, February 20th we arrived in Esperance, where we spent five nights in a vacation home in town. Esperance is home to some of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen! Endless white sands, water every colour of blue that you can imagine and plenty of rocks to climb on. We visited many…
Australia Road Trip: Week Three
On Sunday, we drove from Port Lincoln to Ceduna, making a few stops along the way. First up was Locks Well Beach, an untouched stretch of sandy beach that is 60 meters down from the parking lot. It is unfortunately not safe for swimming but well-known for being a good spot to catch salmon. We…
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