Who know keeping an up-to-date travel blog would be so difficult? Who knew that after walking all day visiting amazing sights that you’d be too tired in the evening to blog? Who knew that it would take you 3-5 hours (minimum) per story because, ‘it has to be perfect’? Who knew you were the Queen Read More
Beauty, Light & Holy Relics
Day: 19 (3rd day in Paris) Km Travelled: 9.45km Steps: 14,769 September 25th, 2017 I found myself standing in a sea of light, the beauty crashing over me, like waves of an ocean. You’re unable to take it all in at once, the dazzling display of lights overwhelms the senses yet its impossible to look Read More
Honour Nourishes The Arts
Day: 18 Km travelled: 8.44km Steps: 13,195 Honour Nourishes The Arts – Cicero September 24th, 2017 If you were to ask any foreign visitors to describe France in one word, you would have an assortment of responses that would inevitably include words like culture, tourist, Eiffel, baguette, wine, fashion, cheese, etc. One that might Read More
The Thinker and The Emperor
Day: 16-17 Km Travelled: 745.17km Steps: 20,259 September 22nd – 23rd, 2017 This famous saying by the great Audrey Hepburn might ring true for some, but it did not for me. I had visited Paris 4 years prior and while I had enjoyed finally laying eyes on all the famous sights, I was in no Read More
The Pink City & Riot Police
Day: 15 Km travelled: 116.51km Steps: 15,167 September 21st, 2017 On my last full day of the visit, I had the opportunity to visit the nearby city of Toulouse, known as ‘La Ville Rose’, as many of its buildings are constructed with a distinctive pink stone. Situated south of Paris, between the Mediterranean and Atlantic oceans, Read More
Photo of the Day (Glenfinnan, Scotland)
Glenfinnan Memorial, the Highlands, Scotland Glenfinnan Aquaduct, the Highlands, Scotland
I can see the Alps from here!
Day: 12- 16 Km travelled: 893.43 km Steps: 33, 800 September 18th-22nd, 2017 As the dawn slowly faded into the midday sun, so did my time in champagne. All good things must come to an end. Except in my case this year, as one marvellous experience morphed into a faded memory deemed for the scrapbook, Read More
Move over coffee, today is a job for champagne!
Day: 10-12 (Eparnay, Champagne Region, France) Km travelled: 801.83 km Steps: 28, 933 Champagne glasses: Best not to keep count… September 16th-18th 2017 I awoke bright and early in my prison sleeper train middle bunk, ready to greet the wonderful weekend that awaited me in the Champagne region! (Correction: I awoke several times in those early Read More
Turkey less but oh so thankful!
I’m Thankful For… …wonderful family who supported me in my crazy choice to leave them for a year … amazing friends who listen to me, counsel me, calm me and add spice to my life … fantastic colleagues who tolerate my rants, raid my chocolate stash and remind me that parties should be fun …70% Read More
If I owned Marseille and Hell, I’d rent out Marseille and live in Hell.
Day: 9 (Marseille) Km travelled: 42.68km Steps: 16,850 September 15th, 2017 If I owned Marseille and Hell, I’d rent out Marseille and live in Hell. – John McCarthy While Mr. McCarthy might have a flair for the dramatic, he was not entirely off the mark with that comment. This city in the French Riviera Read More