Author: AndrewBrown

August 25, 2013 / / American Wilderness

You know that old saying “you wait ages for one moose and then two come along at once”? Well, more of that later. This was a day of activity (mostly) and some great wildlife encounters along the way. We were…

August 23, 2013 / / American Wilderness

Today we were up and about really early due to still being on UK time. We had breakfast in The Mangy Moose, which was a lot nicer than it sounds and sits within a big Swiss-style lodge.   The whole…

August 23, 2013 / / American Wilderness

As I start this first blog we have already been up for about 20 hours, and with many hours of travel left it’s feeling a bit like a fairy tale – Grim! Having already been to Amsterdam (wrong direction) our…

August 19, 2013 / / American Wilderness

Deciding where to go next in the USA has not been easy. So many states and so little time! But we enjoyed our visit to Utah and Colorado so much last year that we can’t wait to visit this year’s destination…

May 31, 2013 / / Italy

Our final day in Italy was quite a leisurely affair. After breakfast we checked out of our hotel and headed for Ravenna, which was on the way to Venice and our flight home. We chose the SS16 as the most…

May 29, 2013 / / Italy

Yesterday tired us out more than we had thought, so today we decided to stay local and walk into Rimini. Our hotel is situated on the sea front, away from the main centre so we walked 20 minutes north along…

May 28, 2013 / / Italy

What a great day we’ve had today! When we arrived in Rimini last night our hearts sank at the sight of what looked, on the face of it, like Blackpool in Italy! The waterfront was wall to wall concrete hotels.…

May 27, 2013 / / Italy

We felt really sad leaving Florence, especially the B&B we had enjoyed there. Flaminia – our host – had restored our faith in italians’ nature. She was a lovely, warm woman, who made us feel at home. She baked all…

May 26, 2013 / / Italy

We awoke to brilliant sunshine and a significantly warmer day. Bologna had been a disappointment and Florence had been a bit of a wash out. But we had high hopes for Siena. The journey took only about an hour and…

May 26, 2013 / / Italy

It started raining heavily during breakfast and continued raining, on and off, all day. So by the time we reached the Uffizi Gallery we were pretty wet! We had purchased our tickets in advance over the internet and so expected…