Fifty four reasons to love San Pancho (part two)

Continuing with our ‘We miss San Pancho’ theme, here’s the second half of our Fifty four reasons to love San Pancho list… Read more

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Victoria in Destinations, Mexico, Travel tips 23 Comments

Walking on the moon and mars in San Pedro de Atacama

Valle de la Luna, San Pedro de Atacama tour

San Pedro de Atacama is surrounded by surreal, other-worldy landscapes. In one direction, you can head towards Bolivia’s salt flats and a land of coloured lagoons and striped volcanoes. Travel to Argentina and you’ll pass a mountain of seven colours – or step just outside the town and you’ll find yourself in the Valle de la Luna, named as such because it’s said to look like the moon. Read more

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Victoria in Chile, Destinations, Photo stories, Travel tips 25 Comments

Top 15 South America highlights: our year in pictures

Excellent splendour salt flats This time last year, our journey was still a dream. I had another couple of months at work, we needed to find tenants for our house and the number 2012 was still synonymous with the Olympics. Now, twelve months later, that number has come to symbolize the year the dream came true.

Choosing to travel was a massive ingredient that helped make 2012 one of the best years of our lives. In our next post, we’ll look at what else helped create that, but today we wanted to celebrate our travel highlights from the past 12 months.

During that time, we’ve been to six countries in South America, as well as separate trips to India, Europe and the US, and now Mexico (which you’ll be hearing a lot more about soon as we’ve fallen for it head over heels). In the meantime, we’re limiting this list to our highlights from South America. Here’s the top 15 in no particular order. Read more

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Victoria in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Destinations, Ecuador, Photo stories, Thoughts, Travel tips 17 Comments

Most excellent travel blog posts: October 2012

Photos by Nina at Smaracuja

It’s time for my pick of October’s best travel blog posts. Some time spent at TBU and TBEX in September meant I got introduced to a lot of new gems, which is where many of these came from… Read more

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Victoria in Excellent travel blogs, Travel tips 9 Comments

Introducing the blog house…

Back in July, I received an email from Kate McCulley, better known as Adventurous Kate. She was replying to an email I’d sent, and in it she mentioned an event she and a group of other experienced bloggers were running in September. They were offering a group of new bloggers the chance to stay with them in a villa in Spain and pick their brains on everything blogging. It was an amazing opportunity with one glaring pitfall: I was in Argentina and it was in Europe. Read more

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Victoria in Destinations, Excellent travel blogs, Spain 21 Comments

Eight things to love about Salta, Argentina

We spent about six weeks in Salta, Argentina and fell in love with its laid-back charm, cobbled streets and terracotta roofs. Practically the whole town closes from 1-5pm – even the surgeons go home to spend time with their families – giving a taste of the pace of life and values of the city. These were our highlights. Read more

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Victoria in Argentina, Destinations, Travel tips 1 Comment

Salta

The Bridges and Balloons Manifesto

Flying at the Salt Flats, Bolivia

Steve laughed at me when I said I was writing a Bridges and Balloons manifesto. “Since when did we get political?” he said. But my understanding of manifesto is different. Read more

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Victoria in Thoughts, Travel tips 9 Comments

And the winner of round #47 of Travel Photo Roulette is…

We have a winner! Thank you so much to everyone who entered round #47 of Photo Travel Roulette with our theme ‘Excellent Splendour of the Universe’. We’ve really enjoyed hosting it and seeing all the entries come in. There were some brilliant submissions and it was a tricky decision. Counting down from five, these were our favourites. Read more

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Victoria in Excellent travel blogs, Photo of the Week 3 Comments

Most excellent travel blog posts: August 2012

Hecktic Travels, Surviving this day

It’s time for a round-up of our favourite travel blog posts this August. It’s been a hectic and awesome month. We started it in Chile and are ending it in Peru, after three weeks in Bolivia in-between. But amid all that, we did manage to keep up with our reading, and these are the favourites we found. Read more

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Victoria in Excellent travel blogs 12 Comments

Most amazing places we’ve ever stayed

I’m a complete geek when it comes to finding good places to stay. Cosy, handmade, individual, homely, bohemian and eco-friendly are all words that grab my attention. Add to that a view, a hot tub, privacy, and a good price and I’m definitely sold.

People are always asking me for recommendations and tips on how I find such places so I thought I’d write a series of posts on the best places we’ve ever stayed, as well as some tips on how we find them. I’ll cover hostels, couchsurfing, Air BnB, long-term apartments and hotels/holiday rentals.

First up is hotels/holiday rentals. Read more

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Victoria in Bolivia, Travel tips 8 Comments

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