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Top 5 from Hong Kong

Our visit to Hong Kong was brief, as it was just the first stop of many in our Asian Adventure. We wrote a post summarizing our high and low points which we then continued in every country we visited. Arguably, our...

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A Dog-Friendly Hotel in Dorset

On a blustery weekend in February we decided that it was time to head out of town. Basil had the droopy ear look that said, ‘I need to run free’ so we jumped in a rental car and drove to the region known as...

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Hong Kong Observations

Six months after announcing our journey to Southeast Asia, we began our adventure in Hong Kong, which remains one of my favourite cities in the world. Too bad my single visit was under the fog of extreme jetlag, missing...

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The Journey and the Destination

Last summer, my mom and I were enjoying a warm outdoor lunch in Budapest just before she left for a multi-week, multi-country small group tour of the Balkans. She was excited about seeing a new part of the world but...

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Amsterdam Weekend

We landed in Amsterdam early on a Friday and already a little worse for the wear. Our usually uneventful travel to the airport was hampered by the UK’s first real snow in several years, rendering the roads completely...

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Podcast Superstar: Housesitting!

For the second time in three short months, I was invited to be a guest on Jackie’s (The Budget Minded Traveller herself!) great podcast.  This time, we’re talking all about housesitting, one of my most...

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Obsessive Travel Planning

Drew and I regularly spend entire weekends obsessively planning and scheming every travel detail.  Case in point: today, I’m working at home and Drew is working on some flight research for our trip to the US in...

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Photo Essay: Istanbul

One of the best vacations we ever took was to Istanbul in 2011. This trip was before our move to the UK, when we were firmly entrenched in the rat race that IS New York City, and this ten day getaway was a substantial...