Some years ago, a friend told Vicki Hatfield, “Don’t wait for when… Sometimes, when never comes.” Months later her friend passed away. But, Vicki embraced the advise and has been traveling ever since. That comment led to one of her inspirations, “I love the memories I have when I return home that I can wrap around me like a warm blanket on cold winter nights.”

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Tracey Gonzalez and her husband, Angel, live and work in midtown Manhattan. What little free time they are afforded is spent traveling, searching for new destinations and “where to eat next”. Their photos alone will explain their fondness for food. Travel and food – such a great combination.

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The Traveling Bastards consist of Simone Cannon de Bastardo and her husband, Luis Bastardo (hence the first part of their site’s name). They also travel and eat (which finishes their title). Between the ‘travel’ and ‘food’ are photographs of the day, tips, recipes (okay, falls under food), philosophies and some very interesting stories.

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The next morning started in a mad panic as at 745 Steph realised she had not canceled her mobile phone contract. Ten minutes later and I was camped out in front of the computer completing the form whilst Steph had rolled back over and gone to sleep Having been unable to figure out whether we should use our final day in Singapore to go to the zoo or to explore the city Steph in a rare epiphany

After yet a very long and delayed night train all the way from Agra and some slight grief trying to find a random man at the train station whose friend had shared our booth and forgotten his phone we arrived in the holy city of Varanasi. A short 9km one way as usual rickshaw drive followed by a long walk down some narrow windy alleys took us to our hostel which turned out to be nicer than we t

After a very very long overnight train journey from Amritsar we finally made it to Agra and caught our first glimpse of the Taj Mahal not something that is easily forgotten It felt so surreal just to eat our lunch on the rooftop gazing over at one the most beautiful buildings on earth and our first proper Wonder of the World quite literally a stone throw away rising up above the slightly

We have had a lovely busy weekend and now I'm beginning to think about getting ready for work. Just time to do a blog though. yesterday we joined in a big litter pick along the canal in Welshpool. The canoe club was there to attack from the water and the canal society to do dry land. We collected lots of bags of rubbish which were collected by a dredging boat so we didn't have to lug them too f

We find the transition from plane to ship painless. The whole process is smooth and well organised such a contrast from skiing holidays and the usual bunfight at Geneva airport with skis luggage coaches and private cars. And yes our luggage which we had parted with at Glasgow airport did turn up outside our cabin door. Going in our airconditioned coach we catch our first glimpse of Jamaica

I know it's been a while sice I've updated the blog finding fast internet here is a problem and the price has doubled since leaving Bangkok. The journey back to Bangkok from Chiang Mai was another really long one the train was a lot older and a lot more rickety and seemed to bang into the carriage in front everytime it stops. I've no idea how it stayed on the track with all the swaying. We dec

After visiting the National World War I Museum I must say that it is an extraordinary monument to the achievements and hardships faced by the Allied soldiers during The Great War. In addition the museum now shows the Man and Machine The German Soldier in World War I exhibit so we can see the war through the other side. It was truly amazing how the museum was laid out with the central cir

Saturday 18th March was the long awaited festival of Holi a festival of colours which celebrates the triumph of good over evil I spent it in Thamel and it was absolutely crazy but so so so fun The festival is basically an excuse to havd a massive water and powder paint fight so practically the minutewestepped out of the hotel in the morning we were mobbed by hoards of paint and water beari

Happy Sunday everyone Sunday is winding down in HZ. No pictures with this blog my poor camera said batteries exhausted I am off tomorrow to find some more batteries so stay tuned for pictures. Yesterday after my tour I met up with a co worker we took an exciting cab ride to the night market. After arriving safely I started my family gift shopping. I was able to get some green tea

As you see I'm still in the province of Neuqun but here in San Martn de los Andes it's a totally different world. The first 5h of my bus trip I saw only Patagonia's earthgrassbusheslandscape. However the colours were amazing and instead of sleeping I was taking pictures all the time I travelled during the day. The closer we came to the Andes the greener was the landscape and anybody in

First Week in NakuruWe got a bus thing from Nairobi in the morning. Waited about an hour for it to arrive with our building manager Ken. Got begged on by about 5 different street men one of them had one eye and wasn't very happy with me. He sort of scratched his arm and then threw it at me then chanted something. Pretty sure it was some sort of curse Matt no longer wanted to travel with me

Ooh this entry is not gonna be easy because I am at an internet cafe amongst a bunch of teens playing video games nerd alert and the keyboard keeps wanting to make my letters into Vietnamese. I will do my best I had to leave my hostel to use the internet because I was distracted by all the sociopathic movies that the people were chosing to watch first Natural Borne Killers and right af

I am becoming much more accustomed to the long trips now. This time a mere seven hours to Jodhpur The Blue City. I arrived in the evening where outside the station were the most homeless people I have ever seen. An impressive yet sad sight. After being dropped to my hotel which I had already booked I was informed that the hotel was full. The manager said I could stay with him for a night or

A week doesn't pass me by without some kind of adventure hereThis week we lost all our phones internet and ATM and eftpos services. It would have been funny but you can't buy food without money and it our society of cards many of us struggledOther facilities in town also shut down for example on Wednesday night our netball game was canceled due to massive rains but no one knew as the phone lin

Hey everyoneI love doing this blog and being able to share with you what God is teaching me where I travel and what awesome things happen in every day lifeSo recently God seems to be teaching me to let Him have His way instead of me always fighting Him. Which it's safe to say I've always struggled with. I've always wanted to have a sense of being in control of everything especially my lif