Our whole reason for this holiday to Alaska and Canada was to visit my daughter, Kylie, in Banff. Banff is a beautiful tourist town in the Banff National Park which is in the Rocky Mountains of western Canada. How fantastic that she decided to live for a few years in one of the most beautiful…
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Heaven on Earth – Ortisei, Northern Italy
Ortisei is a beautiful village in the Val Gardena region of the Dolomites. We headed up by train to Bolzano in northern Italy, then about a one hour bus trip to Ortisei. Absolutely stunning scenery welcomed us on the bus out there. Didn’t really know what to expect but we were in for a fabulous…
Cold, Wet Venice
Now I know for most people when they visit Venice they really fall in love with it. Although I enjoyed Venice, I didn’t fall in love with it at all. That might be due to the dramas getting there and the weather we had! Read on…
Exploring Tuscany
One of those places you hear about all your life and then one day you are actually there and you can hardly believe it. Over two different trips to Tuscany in two different years we visited Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Casole d’Elsa, Pisa, Volterra and a couple of other little hilltop towns. Loved Tuscany but…
A week in Kruger National Park
A week in Kruger National Park was a unique and wonderful experience that will never be forgotten. We saw an incredible amount of wildlife over that time with so many memorable moments! Getting There We flew in to Johannesburg from Cape Town and then headed off in our hire car. It is about a…