Category: Europe
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Lewis and Harris, is it one island or two?
This week we’re headed to the Isle of Lewis and Harris. While it is geographically one island, it is considered to be two separate islands. The southern third is Harris while the northern two-thirds is Lewis. We spent five days exploring both parts of the island, before heading back to the Isle of Skye to…
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Our Winding Journey to the Isle of Skye
As we made our way north from Glasgow, we had marked several places we wanted to stop in this area, but it wasn’t exactly a straight line to Isle of Skye. Although, I don’t think there are any roads that are in a straight line in Scotland. It did help us avoid some of the…
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Remembering How to Cook….and Drive in the UK
After 12 new countries we finally arrive back to a familiar country, the United Kingdom! We visited both England and Scotland but only spent time in places we hadn’t visited before, so no London or Edinburgh this time. Our first week we headed to York for some chores and to see if we remembered how…
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Making Our Way Westward to Qatar and Cyprus
After our big Nepal Adventure we planned about 5 days at a resort in Cyprus for nice warm weather to relax a bit. Kathmandu is a relatively small airport, so to get to Cyprus we would have to do a layover. Since it was one of our longer flights of the year we looked again…