Lucky Number 13 (and our top 5 travel wishes for the upcoming year)

Happy New Year to all our wonderful readers! Thank you for joining us in 2012 and we hope that you continue to travel with us during what will be a very lucky 2013 I am sure! Tom and I spent New Years Eve at my step-sister & her partners beautiful house in the forest in Quebec. We drunk French wine, pear liquor and craft beer. We listened to a lot of French chatter and met some lovely new people. We...

Farewell Rotterdam, (Hi Iceland) & Hello New York

Rotterdam was our home for over a year. We made some fantastic friends (you know who you are) and did some wonderful trips around The Netherlands and Europe, much of which has been recorded and documented in this blog. In a way, I wanted to stay there. I still have more of Europe to explore (can you ever be done?). Our one year stay in Rotterdam was everything we wanted it to be. Part of the trip was touching base...

10 Travel Blogs You Must Read In 2013

Did you know there are other travel blogs out there just as awesome as mine? I know, right!? It was a shock to me as well I digress, here is a list of 10 of my favourite travel bloggers, from the more experienced to the ones to watch as we shoot into what will be a fabulous year – 2013.   Finding The Universe Laurence is the man behind Finding The Universe (along with his charming girlfriend Vera)....

Instagram Roundup: The Italian Special

So we went to Italy. It was awesome. Trudy snapped a bunch of glorious snaps on the Canon SLR – lots of Italian content to come of course. Check out the post we’ve already done on the world heritage listed Cinque Terre though! In the last few months we explored the Kinderdijk. We talked about things to do and our experiences in Split as well as a beautiful photo essay on Dubrovnik. One of the Active...

Instagram Roundup July 2012

July is over and we’re well onto our way through August… so we can’t forget the Instagram Roundup of course Trudy had a good friend from Australia stop by and visit. We managed to blow most of our monthly budget in Amsterdam on a numerous bottles of Spanish wine and a delicious meal of contemporary Japanese fusion… I also brought some new pants, but come on, everyone needs pants at some...