If you saw my post last week about Sardinia, I was complaining that we didn’t quite match with the beach town of Olbia. It wasn’t what we were looking for in a relaxing beach week. I felt a little bad for complaining so much, so now I need to write a blog post praising a…
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Sardinia- not as planned
We have been in France for over a month, and our feet haven’t set foot in a swimming pool or on a beach. We knew would be ready for a beach week and set aside 5 days in Olbia, Sardinia for some beach relaxation time. We took a ferry from Corsica and found a bus…
Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
Our first stop in the Galapagos is the most populated island Santa Cruz and we stayed in the biggest town Puerto Ayora. Santa Cruz is bigger than the island of Maui but it still only has 20,000 fulltime inhabitants. Many people that visit the Galapagos do it on a liveaboard small cruise ship (usually about…
Curacao
Yes, we had a Dushi time during our 2 weeks in Curacao. Dushi is kind of a catch all “good” word that people us for a variety of uses similar to “Aloha” in Hawaii or “Lekker” in South Africa. People used “Dushi” describing good food, weather or a fantastic beach, as well as meaning lovely….
Quepos and Manuel Antonio NP
Manuel Antonio National Park is one of the top attractions in Costa Rica and we couldn’t leave it out of our trip. It is is the smallest Costa Rican National Park but it also the most popular with more than 150,000 visitors annually. It has some beautiful beaches combined with a lot of easily seen…
Montezuma, Costa Rica
We have company again! My brother Gerrit and wife Sarah were able to plan a Costa Rica trip the same time we were here and stayed with us in Montezuma for a few days. It was fantastic to have someone else to talk to for a while and G and S are very compatible travel…
Playa Del Coco and Samara
Part of our plan to slow down while traveling; and to do that we are trying to take some time once in a while in some destinations where there isn’t much to do. Traveling in cities can sometimes be hectic when it feels like we need to navigate a metro system every day to see…
Alicante, Spain
The last stop on the European leg of our fall trip. We have spent September in France, and October in Spain, and we knew we would be a bit weary from all that European culture travel so we had planned 9 days at the Spanish beach town of Alicante. We were envisioning a quiet week…
French Basque Country
Sometimes you just need some beach time. We had been in France for 3 weeks but we didn’t have a good chance to swim in the Med. We were busy seeing the sites and beaches weren’t the priority in Arles, Montpellier and Bordeaux. We did a lot of museums and cultural stuff which is the…
Ao Nang Beach, Krabi, Thailand
We actually weren’t super excited going to Krabi. We put it into our itinerary to break up a long travel day between Thai islands. It sounded like a tourist town on the beach with a lot of hustle and bustle. It was…. but it is also a very beautiful area. Sunsets were amazing and the…
Yelapa- The Isolated Mexican Beach Town
The last stop on our 2022 Mexico tour was 4 nights in the small beach town of Yelapa. We had been going full bore tourist mode during our few days in Mexico City so we wanted a few days to do nothing before we went home to Beacon Hill – Seattle. Yelapa does not have…