Kuala Lumpur is our go-to place for Thai tourist visas, and the hub for our favourite airline – AirAsia. Therefore, we spend a few days there quite regularly. And therefore, we have tended to take Kuala Lumpur for granted a…
The Golden Temple, Amritsar – Day 867 (Feb 13, 2016)
The Golden Temple is the spiritual heart of the Sikh religion. When we went to Chandigarh to visit our friend, Dan, he insisted that we must see the Golden Temple at least once in our lives. The Sikh religion is…
Trivandrum, Capital of Kerala – Day 812-22 (Dec 21-Dec 31, 2015)
We had promised to visit a friend (Vimal) in Kerala for Christmas. One of those travelling tales – we bought a SIM card in Kuala Lumpur, got chatting with the guy in the shop, and found out he was from…
Panjim (Panaji), Capital of Goa – Day 805-811 (Dec 14-20, 2015)
Panjim is in a beautiful location – the centre of the city is on a peninsula, at the point where two rivers meet and empty into a vast estuarine bay. On the west coast, ocean waves break against orange-yellow sand dunes,…
Visiting An Alpine Postcard: Lake Bled, Slovenia, September 22, 2014
Having seen Ljubljana, it was time to venture outside the city limits. Just 40km from Ljubljana is Lake Bled, an Alpine postcard of a destination. In the middle of the lake is an island, with a church, which is THE…
Turda, Romania To Linz, Austria: Chasing Trains!
When we emerged from the mine, we caught a bus to the centre of Turda. We would have thought it was amazing and wonderful just to drink hot chocolate in the sunshine, but the town centre is quite lovely in…
Brasov to Cluj, Transylvania, Romania, September 7-9, 2014
We met some English chaps in Budapest, who had just returned from touring Transylvania, and they told us that there was an amazing salt mine in a town called Turda in Transylvania. We had an offer of couchsurfing accommodation in…
Sofia, Bulgaria, August 28-29, 2014: Even more WOW!
After an excellent lunch, Marta took us to see the first cathedral built after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turks – The Alexander Nevsky Monumental Cathedral. It is built proudly above ground, with domes covered in real gold. The…
Sofia, Bulgaria, August 28, 2014: Sofia – wow. Wow. WOW!
Sofia is one of the most beautiful European capitals we have seen to date. It has a long and impressive history, with the area being inhabited since prehistoric times. The Romans conquered the Thracian inhabitants of the area (we have…
Prizren, Kosovo, August 22, 2014: Kosovans Are The Nicest People In The World
The bus from Podgorica to Pristina arrived an hour and a half earlier than scheduled. This would explain why we were being flung around so much on the winding mountain roads while we were trying to sleep – the driver…