So the centre of Lombok didn’t quite play as out we imagined, and after a very brief stop - we didn’t even spend the night - we headed north again to the top of Lombok in readiness for catching a boat to Gili Air. Unable to make it in time for a crossing that night,...
After our very remote first stay in Sumatra, it was time to move to the nearest town of Bukit Lawang. Our travel option was a rather old open back jeep where we sat on wooden benches holding on where possible, the girls thought this was marvellous bumping along the...
….The Nyemecz’s sweat tonight! And the morning, and at lunchtime, and pretty much every hour of the day! Well, talk about a culture shock, our short flight from Singapore to Medan didn’t really give us enough time, or prepare us, for the difference between two...
After yet another visit to San Francisco airport, my third in almost as many days, to collect the hire car, we headed north from the city heading for Sonoma County. First though, the small matter of navigating ‘the beast’ around the relatively modest roads of the...
We managed to squeeze in one final beach body boarding session before we had breakfast, packed up the car and headed off from our Matapalo Beach love affair. Katie was especially sad to say farewell to our pet sloth and the numerous Iguanas living in the garden. Our...
We must have got used to the roads, bumping our way back from Drake’s Bay to the main road heading to our next stop felt nowhere near as bad as the way out! A few hours west and we left the Osa Peninsula and arrived at Matapalo, a tiny little place on the coast with a...
There was no need for the 5am alarm, the howler monkeys started at least an hour earlier, and being the 2nd loudest animals on the planet, after the blue whale, we heard them even though our host believed they are about 1km away. It was a pretty unsettled night...
We set off from Panama bright an early after another beautiful breakfast of fresh fruit, eggs, pancakes, juice and coffee…. As seems to be par for the course in Latin America. We opted for a taxi to Paso Canoas, the Frontera (border crossing) between Panama and Costa...
Greetings from Panama, the land of the Canal, not the hat. Despite their name, Panama Hats are not actually from Panama, they were made famous from being sold to wealthy tourists who were visiting Panama and featuring in US films, however they are actually from...
This was the best holiday ever. The galapagos is amazing. After three and a half hours flying, 15 minutes on a bus and five minutes on a zodiac (small speed boat) to our cruise we finally arrived in the most amazing place on earth. THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS! We were...
