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q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how a. monteverde (b&b, 1 night), tamarindo (airbnb, 4 nights), samara (airbnb, 2 nights) q. favourite meal a. homemade fried rice with with green beans, green onions, corn, jalapeno and a bucketful of white rice. we both needed a break from beans and plantains and there aren’t […]
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what do i like? -r&r – the beach of carrillo doesn’t have a single building along its whole beachfront. light brown/white sand sit behind a few rows of palm trees and when the sun is out, the water is a glassy, blue colour. i’d have to give it some serious consideration as being one of […]
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what do i like? -so quiet – the first time we walked onto the beach felt like we showed up at somewhere that wasn’t listed in any guidebooks (which it is). the crowd has a mix of tourists and ticos (native costa ricans) and towards the evenings, the tourists are taking pictures of the sunsets […]
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q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. ometepe island (merida, la omaja, 3 nights), playa maderas (maderas, casa maderas, 3 nights) q. favourite meal a. chicken quesadillas in a beach shack at the far end of playa maderas. there were about 10 things on the menu but the owner was only […]
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jojo: what do i like? -our first beach day since the netherlands almost 3 months ago and it didn’t disappoint. playa maderas is a small, quiet beach best known for surfing. the waves range in size but the beach is empty, sand is fine, water is warm and the landscape is made up of wave […]
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while in riga, we took refuge from the many flash latvian rainstorms to plan out the final weeks of our european travels. we managed to squeeze in a few hours at a nearby blue flag beach (jurmala) while in riga but we really wanted to stretch our legs out in some more sand. we booked […]
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q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. rotterdam (kralingen-crooswuk, airbnb, 7 nights) q. favourite meal a. all our meals were pretty low key this week. we ate half of our meals at home and had a few favs from market q. most memorable moment / best highlight a. our final beach […]
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we’re entering our 7th month of being on the road and at the risk of jinxing our future travels, i have to say that we’ve been rolling pretty good over the last few months. we’ve had our share of hardships but they’ve been relatively few and far between. the weather was pretty much great as […]
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i was down and out for a few days in porec thanks to an allergic reaction to something i ate so i had the itch to get out and see what else this peninsula had to offer. rovinj is another coastal town about 30 mins south of porec and boasts an old town of its […]
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we picked up a rental car to service us for the next 10 days while traveling around croatia. getting from dubrovnik to split is a relatively straightforward trip as both towns/cities are tourist destinations but by driving, we got to admire every little part of the amazing adriatic highway. we picked up our rental car […]
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by the third day of our dubrovnik stay, the antisocial me had kicked in and i had had my fill of crowds. we spent a full day navigating our way through the hordes of old town and all i wanted to do was get away, as far away as possible and sit somewhere quiet for […]
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it doesnt take a lot of landlocked days in this heat to motivate us to find some water. although we were staying right on the edge of the bay of kotor we hadn’t realized that the water around town isn’t ideal for swimming thanks to the proximity to the mooring area of all the luxury […]
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-unfinished buildings – we noticed this in every town we passed and even in the countryside. buildings will be built up and a large number are left dormant at various stages of construction (with no sign of construction equipment onsite). the ones that are being utilized will have the first floor finished with walls and […]
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we spent five days in sarandë and had two days to spend roadtripping it out in search of beaches. spending our first day on our hotel’s private beach was a great day in it’s own right but we had no idea what we were going to find once we got out of the city’s limits. […]
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the main promenade of sarandë looked to be the most built up area of town* that we’ve seen during our stay in town. it’s one of the longest stretches of uninterrupted waterfront property we saw and it stands out a lot from the older areas of town. stands out by a LOT. the promenade had […]
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coming off of one heck of a travel day, we got dropped off at our lodging in sarandë in the pouring rain. with the only things on our minds being to dry off and sleep off our travels, we did just that and by the time we woke up the sun was starting to break […]
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our last atv trek was back in the philippines and took us down a fairly secluded dirt road to view some of the ‘chocolate hills’ up close and personal. in santorini, atvs are a dime a dozen. everywhere you go you’ll hear these little engines spinning up which are a nice warning that someone’s behind […]
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we heard that santorini didn’t have great beaches but we had to find out for ourselves and compare it to those of portugal and the philippines. all of the ones below except for cape coloumbo were accessible by buses which depart from fira, starting with the ones that we visited. -monolithos – next to the […]
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