This post is long overdue, but considering I’ve done another trip since the last one and have another one coming in a few months, I needed to get on it! So much has happened this year that finding the time to give this post the attention it needed was quite a challenge. While I normally…
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2022 – My Best Year of Travel
I entered 2022 with very high expectations. I had started a new job a few months prior at a company I’m extremely proud to be associated with, and there was something in my gut that said it was going to be a special year. I started a new relationship on New Years Day with someone…
Austria Part 3: Hallstatt
I really wanted to save this post for last, but thanks to my OCD, I need to write about my holiday in chronological order. Yes, I went to Hallstatt. Even when I see pictures of it now, I still can’t actually believe that I went there. Just when I thought Neuschwanstein Castle was magical, I…
Austria Part 2: The Sound of Music
Earlier this year, I wrote a post called “The Hills Are Alive in 2015“. The Sound of Music was one of only 2 reasons for my visit to Salzburg, and there was no better year for me to do it in than in 2015, since it was the movie’s 50th anniversary. Let me make one…
Austria Part 1: Salzburg
Salzburg was a place I grew up wanting to visit for several reasons, and after seeing Innsbruck in 2012, I was even more keen to see another Austrian city. Like the other cities I went to on this trip, I spent 4 nights in Salzburg, which was actually too long. I never cared to look at…
Europe 2015: Things One Cannot Miss
Today I saw a post on Facebook saying that there are only 70 days left until Oktoberfest starts and I realised that means that there’s only 71 days left until I leave for my trip. In the weeks since my last post, I’ve been consulting various sources to get ideas on which activities to take part in….
Europe 2015: The Planning Process Part 2
It suddenly hit me that I now have less than 100 days left before boarding my first Qatar Airways flight to Munich. There were a number of factors involved in my decision around the date that I would be leaving, and after ironing out everything, I was able to book my flights. My trusty flight-booking…
The Hills Are Alive in 2015
Its been a good start to 2015 so far, though more professionally than personally. Trust me to be the one to fall for someone who I’d never see again cos he left the country! I mean, really?! Other than that, there is so much to look forward to this year, mainly my travel plans. This…
Places (I want) to Visit and Why
The world is huge. There’s no denying it. I read an article on CNN recently entitled “Give Children the Gift of Travel” and while reading it, I couldn’t help but nod my head. As a child, my parents took me everywhere, from weekends in the Drakensburg Mountains to the coastal towns of Margate, Ramsgate and Port Elizabeth, to…
Trip to Europe: Day 8 – Liechtenstein and Austria
11 June 2012. I woke up heartbroken that I had to leave Switzerland. I wished I could stay longer. I was, however, excited (and bloody nervous) that I was going to be doing white water rafting on the way to Austria. But more of that later. I was also really excited to see Liechtenstein because for…