Travel ideas, plans, dreams
I suppose for starters I should say that visiting Madagascar is not for everyone. First of all, we could not comment on 4 or 5 star travel in Madagascar. If that is your travel style, then you might want to look for other blogs that focus more on that. However, if your style of travel is anything like ours, then this post might be helpful for you. We have had...
Lately we have been doing a lot of free walking tours and so I wanted to do a quick post about what they are. I am sure you could google it so I will keep it brief. In many cities that draw tourists, there are companies that provide “free” walking tours. Type “Tallinn free walking tour” (replacing with the appropriate city name) to find whether there are any...
A very quick introduction to geocaching. I am not going to go into great detail. If you are interested you can look at geocaching.com or the link below for specific details. Basically, geocaching is an outdoor activity in which we use a gps or smartphone to navigate to cleverly hidden “caches” that have been hidden by other geocachers. By logging into geocaching.com...
Nicola thought we should do an Iceland post to wrap up the campervan things we learned. I decided to expand that a little to include all of our lessons learned. This may seem like a jumble of things but nonetheless good things to know. Campervan Lessons Of course you need to remember all of the costs when you plan a campervan holiday. In all, we travelled about 2500...
The next morning we got up in Hvammstangi with a plan to scope out the seals. Turns out that there is only the Iceland Seal Centre but no seals in Hvammstangi. We drove up to Illugastadir to find seals… actually the girl told us Svalbard. Again we saw seals basking in the sun on rocks out in the water. No great up close experience. As there was only two nights left...
I have been building a Google Maps track of our adventure. This is where we are to date… I will complete it as we finish the drive and then update this post.
Click on it and zoom in to follow us. The red numbers are where we stayed each night. Photos are tagged in locations we took them. I added gas, groceries, and activities.
Well here we go. We are leaving Canada tonight with our first stop being Iceland. A quick video from the airport in Toronto. We have had several people ask us how we pack for a year of travel. It is not easy when you are going to both hot and cold places. Our backpacks are very full but underweight (even when we factor the food we packed for Iceland). We have...
We booked a camper van for 11 days in May 2019. Price was not the only factor. In fact, one of the big factors for me was getting a bed that I would fit in. So part of my research was to figure out the bed size. For some, bed size would be less important, but I am 6′ 6″ tall so I did not want to suffer the whole time. The other important factor is the...
With 90 days to go, we are ready to book the first leg of our trip. By the time we pack our house, drop our cat in Penticton, have family visits, I expect we will be on our way by mid-May. So we are now researching what to do in Iceland during the last half of May. Where to stay, what to do, and how to get around. We are considering flying into Reykjavik and staying...
How much does it cost to travel for a year? If you have never done it before it can be very difficult to create a budget. This post will show some tools you can use to estimate travel costs and set yourself a budget. They may not be perfect but it is good to have a ballpark. Having a budget might actually help you pick where you will go, for how long, and what you...