Planning is the first and most essential aspect of traveling, and we truly love to do it. The journey really starts online and in books, and it is just so satisfactory to build up expectations while you’re adding to your schedule step by step. Our approach is simple: we look up places we want to …
Sri Lanka is a very versatile country, in the sense that it offers the traveler a diverse range of sights, stays, tastes and activities, both in terms of nature, culture and local cuisine. It makes this island very suitable for a round trip and that is exactly what most visitors do here. We were no …
It is fair to say that if there is any place in Sri Lanka where you just need to stay at least a few days, it’s Sigiriya. It is perfectly situated: very close to quite a few absolutely must-see highlights, both for wildlife enthousiasts, landscape lovers, people interested in ancient culture, adventure seekers and those …
Visiting Sri Lanka has been on our bucket list for many years. I recently went through our travel documents again and it turns out we started researching this trip already in 2018! Due to some unexpected practical/timing issues (we had to renew our passports, which took much longer than expected), we weren’t able to go …
As always, we start our blogpost series with a practical guide, to help you organise your trip to this fantastic destination. Flying to Sri Lanka As always, when you live in central Europe like we do, be sure to check out flight prices from different airports. We flew out from Frankfurt Airport – which is …
Jerusalem is a very popular travel destination, and for very different reasons. This is a holy city for all three monotheistic religions, which means it attracts quite a lot of pilgrims from all over the world. But there’s more. With its almost 5000 years of history and a plethora of cultural influences, Jerusalem has become a vibrant …
To some, Israel is known as the promised land. But for travelers, this country has much more to offer than only promises. It is a small country, but there is a lot to see and there is a lot to do. There are deserts for nature lovers, ancient ruins and medieval cities for amateur historians, (Mediterranean and Red Sea) …
For Annick this was the second time in Israel. The first trip she traveled together with Shira, her friend who lives near Tel Aviv. Eleven years later, Shira still lives near Tel Aviv, but has twins… So we met up a few times, but traveling the whole time together was not possible this time around …
During our travels in Israel, we used a quiet town not to far from Tel Aviv as our homebase. Ofcourse, Tel Aviv itself was on our to-do list as well! Tel Aviv Tel Aviv is a modern and lively city. You can easily spend multiple days there, but we decided to narrow it down to one …
Travelers heading to Israel: we would like to give you a few words of advice in case you are planning a city trip in this country. If you ask us: forget about Jerusalem and Tel Aviv all together and don’t even bother to head over to Haifa or Akko. For the ultimate city trip experience in Israel we advise …
