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Venice and Murano on a rainy day

Venice and Murano (Italy) on a rainy day The last two nights we have spent in Reggio Emilia – below Milano and we wish we had longer to stay. Our friends were amazing, and the time shared was very special. So with regret, we left as it started to rain again.  We drove on to […]

Meeting ‘ Mom with Backpack ‘ from Italy

Meeting ‘ Mom with Backpack ‘ from Italy Read the great Mom with Backpack blog here. Travel has some amazing benefits. One has been to connect with other travelers. Another has been to connect with other bloggers. This time we get to meet and stay with a family who love to travel and love to […]

Falling in Love with Florence

Falling in Love with Florence Italy After two weeks of relaxing with house-sitting in the Italian hills, we are ready to see a bit more of Italy – on our tiny budget. We have just had to pay for both the cost of the exhaust and muffler to be replaced in our vehicle, and there […]

Free Italy Accommodation with Housesitting

  We find ourselves with an amazing opportunity for free Italy accommodation that we want to share with you. We find ourselves now traveling with just the 2 of us, and Explorafriend leaves us as she wanted to go to her family in Italy, so we dropped her onto a train in Rome. So our […]

BIG Blog Exchange 2014

Big Blog Exchange 2014 Then travels can continue with Random Acts of Kindness to help others along the way. So here I sit in Italy. One single Mum from Australia – Exploramum, and I sit with one 9-year-old boy – Explorason. So far we have traveled through 33 countries, and we are now in our 3rd […]

Garden Hotel Arezzo Italy

Garden Hotel Arezzo Italy Please vote for me as we would love to win this blog competition and it just takes 1 minute to add your email address and then confirm. Click Here. Accommodation Name: Garden Hotel Arezzo Italy Location:  Battifolle 36 / b – 52100 Arezzo (iscito Casello A1 Arezzi) Telephone:  0575 363363 email: info@gardenhotelarezzo.com website: http://www.gardenhotelarezzo.it […]

Pizza in Pisa – no, we went to IKEA instead

Pizza in Pisa – no, we went to IKEA instead Please vote for me as we would love to win this blog competition and it just takes 1 minute to add your email address and then confirm. Click Here. We have just been and spend several hectic days in Rome, and on the way, we had […]

Rome under Renovation

Rome under Renovation One of the dreams Explorason had at the onset of this trip was to visit The Roman Colosseum.  So with some recent changes in our itinerary, this was a surprising place to be but we are surprised to find a lot of Rome under renovation. There it is before us as we […]

St. Paul de Vence and Antibes France

St. Paul de Vence and Antibes France Please vote for us here and help us win a blogger competition – it takes only 1 minute! We have been to Nice, France for nearly one week. Explorason and I usually want a break after we travel hard, and Morocco was a fast trip for the two […]

Monte Carlo Monaco – 2nd Travel Anniversary

Monte Carlo Monaco on our 2nd Travel Anniversary This is our Travelversary!  And the start of our 3rd continuous year of world travel. Last year we enjoyed dining out for lunch and it in Bolivia, South America. In one of the poorest towns in one of the poorest countries. And this year we dined overlooking the […]

Nice is Nice – France that is !

  Nice is Nice – France that is! Airbnb – You can really get some great properties on there, and so did we. So after we have had a rough flight back from Morocco, with Explorason having gastro, we have spent the night in a chain motel in Marseille, before heading to Nice for our […]

Fabulous Fez or Moroccan Mayhem ?

Fabulous Fez or Moroccan Mayhem? In Meknes, we stayed at the fabulous Riad Hiba where the manager kindly organized us a Grande Taxi to take us to Fez. These taxis are Mercedes Benz. They are old. They don’t have air conditioning, and sometimes they don’t have seat-belts working either. Make no mistake; the Riad staff […]