Dog-tired, under slept, and sore muscles where we didn’t know we even had muscles, but ready to do it all over again! Our time on…
They rode fast in through the arched gate on a white stallion wet with sweat. The rider was a man in his forties, holding a…
I heard it, but the knocking didn’t wake me. It was only when Sarah pushed at me and said there was someone knocking that I…
Kanye West wasn’t the soundtrack I expected when hiking on Cinque Terre, but as I passed the girl with her blaring mobile phone, my eye…
The pizzeria high above the beach with its honky-tonk piano man and the cool breeze blowing in from the Gulf of Salerno had only a…
After boarding the Jadrolinija ferry at Dubrovnic we were slightly delayed due to extra checks at customs. The emerging (so called) “migrant crisis” in Europe and in…
The last sunlight still glowed in the treetops. My hammock swayed gently between two pine trees where I tied it a few days ago. Me…
“I feel sLOVEnia”, the banners read. There were two banners as we drove into Bled, the first as you enter town and a second as…
The full moon was still behind Kleinberg mountain and Hallstätt’s glittering reflection over Hallstätter See was the brightest thing in the night. The cool mountain…
The smell of pine needles. Wood smoke. Oiled timber to protect the wooden chalets against the elements. Sunshine. Rain. Wind. Cheese. Chocolate. Scary, really scary,…