Big 5 African Safari Success (Helpful Tips Too!)

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Metropole Hotel Bangkok Is An Understated Luxury Hotel

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Our flight from South Africa to Bangkok was a very long one that involved a six hour layover. Needless to say, we were extremely tired upon arrival. Our Uber ride soon delivered us to The Metropole Bangkok, a uniquely designed serviced residence under the new luxury label of Ascott ‘The Crest Collection”. This was to …

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Emotional Visit to the Apartheid Museum Johannesburg

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Updated: On our recent visit to Johannesburg, I had some reservation about seeing the Apartheid Museum. I knew it would be hard, emotional and might make me angry. We were enjoying the city as a whole and thought this might just drag us down enough to reverse our original feelings. I finally decided that we …

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Is Johannesburg colorful and vibrant? Oh Yes!

postcard from johannesburg stadium

Oct 9, 2018 @ 8:46 AM

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The 94,000 eat capacity football stadium shaped like a calabash (a gourd used to drink beer). A real treat for us to see.

Hello from Johannesburg, South Africa. It’s summer here, but the temperature is quite bearable. I was terrified the first day as l thought we brought rain with us. It had been raining all week before we left Seville. We got to Rome and it rained for a while before clearing up. Imagine my surprise when we landed in Johannesburg to wonderful weather only to have it turn into an ear-splitting thunderous rainstorm  within an hour of arrival and stayed that way for the rest of the day and night 🙁 . Thankfully, it cleared by the next morning and it’s been perfect since then. Here is a quick post of our first impressions of this absolutely amazing city.

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Rare Epic Travel Fail To See Sintra Portugal

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Jul 22, 2019 @ 9:59 AM

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A view of Sintra. Wikipedia Image

I fully admit that this epic fail is partially, if not completely my fault. First, we were traveling in August. Can you say the height of summer? Foolish l know, but l was on a high. We were at the tail end of a 31 day trip that had seen us in Madrid, Rome, Stockholm, then Bologna, back to Rome, and finally Lagos in Portugal. Everything had gone pretty smoothly, even with the summer crowds. Sintra however was a total disaster from the start.

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Had l not been such a stubborn ass, we could have avoided this tale of woe. I had read up on Sintra and was really anxious to visit this supposedly charming place. Mention Sintra to anyone and you will get nothing but glowing accolades. I saw travel websites and bloggers throwing around words like charming, fantastic, picturesque, majestic and my favorite “Sintra exudes a romantic aura that left a deep impression on the soul of writers since the 18th and 19th centuries.”. Is it any wonder that l had big dreams for this place?

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