You know how sometimes for some random reason you just happen to end up in a certain place at a certain time? Well, for some unknown reason this Lonely Planet writer happened to end up in the backseat of our rented 4WD Jeep – frantically scribbling down notes in his notebook. We were in Samos, [...]

This summer we spent about 5 weeks traveling around Europe, and everywhere we went, people talked about the crisis and how it had affected their country. We spoke to a lot of people, and often got to see the results of the crisis first hand – this left a big impression on me, and I [...]

Yesterday, I was – again, approached by a girl asking me something – what she was asking was impossible for me to know, since she was speaking French. I said that I spoke English, but she didn’t want to understand, and continued speaking French. When I smiled helplessly and said again that I didn’t understand, [...]

Traveling has fast as we have over the last 3 weeks (1 new country every 2-3 days) during the Europe Train Challenge, really forces you think a lot about the whole concept of traveling – there are so many ways to travel, and we all like different things. The day I left to Dublin to [...]

People always talk about how places change so fast, how only ten years ago things were so different. Bangkok in Thailand is no different, only that time there seems to be running on high speed! Changes In Bangkok During the end of our 10 day stay in Bangkok, we found this really nice street food restaurant [...]

Many people hold the belief that they will be able to rest during a long flight and think that they will feel totally refreshed when landing in their destination – they will soon realize that they couldn’t be more wrong … Flying (at least economy class), is not normally …