Tag: Markets

Euro Road Trip – North Albania

The final stretch of road from Montenegro to the border was terrible. It was a narrow twisting section of road, realistically only 1.5 lanes wide, yet people were…

Chisinau, Moldova – Europe’s Least Travelled Country

That’s one of the first things we saw when we were searching for information about Moldova, that it was one of the world’s least visited countries (at least…

Irkutsk – Paris of the East

The marshrutka from Listvyanka wasn’t as comfortable as I thought it was going to be when we first sat down. Like most public transport, I end up with…

Antalya

Partly because we were tired, and partly because it sounded like a good idea last night, we decided to spend an extra day here in Antalya, just taking…

Bodrum By Day, Datça By Night

The view from the terrace where we had our breakfast this morning was awesome. There was something amazing about seeing so many near uniform houses all lined up,…

Day 152 – Salamanca Markets

Allow me the indulgence to whinge for a paragraph (and no promises, but I will probably whinge more). I feel somewhat cursed that our car seems to always…

Day 143 – Melbourne with Dad

The number plates here in Victoria proclaim, ‘Victoria – The Place To Be’. Judging by the number of people that we know who happen to be here at…

Day 97 – 101 – Maintenance Adventures in Perth

We’re staying in Bayswater with a friend that we met in Niseko, Japan. We were fortunate enough that one of his housemates has gone on extended vacation and…

Day 67 – Delayed in Darwin

Apologies in advance for this somewhat drawn out rant. Skip to the last paragraph if you want. Returned to the mechanic as early in the morning as we…

Day 66 – Jumping Crocodile Circus

It was lucky that I checked where the Adelaide River crocodile jumping tours start from, because I’d just assumed it was from the town of the same name,…