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Poland

Poland

Our only previous experience of Poland was in early 1986 when we ( very briefly ) transitted the country on a train from London to Shanghai. It was January, hence cold and dreary, and despite the early stirrings of “Solidarity”, Poland was still firmly in the “Eastern...

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Germany To Poland, via  Czechia

Germany To Poland, via Czechia

From Celle we continued south-east towards Dresden, a cultural mecca which had for 45 Cold-War years been under the yolk of Soviet directed communism. One is reminded of that terrible era when driving to Dresden as you pass through the town of Marienborn, one of the...

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Germany: Van Collection & First Impressions

Germany: Van Collection & First Impressions

There must have been quite the tailwind pushing us north as we departed Mauritius - our scheduled 12 hour flight to Frankfurt, Germany only took 11 hours. The hour saving really only translated into a longer layover in Frankfurt, though, as we still had the connection...

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Madagascar to Mauritius: End Of The Cruise

Madagascar to Mauritius: End Of The Cruise

Turns out that Zanzibar ( a scheduled port visit that was skipped due to a local cholera outbreak ) was not to be the only scheduled port that the Norwegian Dawn would miss. While a public health risk was the culprit with Zanzibar, it would be the weather gods that...

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The Seychelles  to  Madagascar

The Seychelles to Madagascar

Day two in the stunning Seychelles took us to the nearby island of La Digue, famed for its especially white, sandy beaches and warm, turquoise waters. One of those beaches, Anse Source Argent, reportedly ranks among the world’s best by some rankings ( Lonely Planet,...

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Cruise – Qatar to Seychelles

Cruise – Qatar to Seychelles

More than anything our time in Doha had simply been a great chance to relax, the weeks preceding it being a time of continuous travelling - almost every night in a different place. There was an unexpected delight in simply resting in bed as long as we wanted, coming...

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Jeff + Lois

Jeff + Lois

The PanAm completed in April, 2022 and with the truck camper sold, we shipped our new Sprinter van to Australia in late 2022. We travelled there through all of 2023 and into 2024 before shipping it up to North East Asia where we travelled for 4 months between Korea and Japan, before shipping it back to North America. It’s our plan to continue exploring the world in 2025.

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