We left Zagreb at 8am and it took 30 minutes to exit the city – so much for Zagreb being quiet! But it was the Monday morning rush hour after all. The journey south-west was a little monotonous if we…
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The drive from the airport was quick, easy and quiet and within twenty minutes or so we had arrived at our first destination – Croatia’s capital city, Zagreb. It always takes time to get used to a new capital city…
The mountains of the Banff National Park ended abruptly as we travelled eastward on Trans-Canada Highway 1, giving way to much flatter, open farmland and lots of sky. Seeing the mountains in the car’s rear-view mirror diminishing with every mile…
At last, the gondola trip and the weather looked promising. Rachel practised her deep breathing exercises to calm herself down – the thought of having to wrestle her to the ground in the cable car until the panic passed did…
Would it be the lake cruise or the gondola (cable car) today? Well, as usual, the weather caused some indecision: one moment it looked like the cloud would never lift from the surrounding mountains; the next, the summits were clear…
Two amazing experiences in one day – we couldn’t have asked for anything better. We had keenly anticipated our trip along the Icefields Parkway for almost a year and the day finally arrived with our journey from Jasper to Banff…
Jasper is a lovely town with a clean, fresh appearance and is certainly geared to tourism. It is clear as soon as you arrive that this is a hub for all kinds of outdoor activities like hiking, skiing, rafting and…
The journey from Vancouver to Jasper is a whole lot of wilderness once you get beyond Hope – and the whole journey took us 2 days by car. The journey is possible in one go and would take somewhere in…
As Cobb falls into his deepest and final dream in the film Inception (Leonardo DiCaprio) he enters a haunting, post-apocalyptic city lost in time and place, its facade inexorably crumbling away into the sea to be lost forever. I know…