"We haven't been everywhere, but it's on our list!"
Camel racing is a huge sport everywhere in Arabia, and nowhere more so than in Qatar. We visited the enormous racing complex at Al Shahaniya outside Doha and watched them training the racing camels. Here’s a short YouTube video of
Check out our animated travel route from Vancouver to four countries in the Arabian Peninsula for our upcoming trip (100countries.info/trips/2023-1-arabian-peninsula-feb-mar-2023). The trip starts out with back to back red-eye flights, with a third flight added on at the end to
We’re trying something new and different for our upcoming trip to the Arabian Peninsula; a consultation with an AI driven, “virtual travel agent”! Check out the results on our trip page 100countries.info/trips/2023-1-arabian-peninsula-feb-mar-2023 Interested in travel to exotic destinations such as
When we booked our 6-month trip to Australia in the spring of 2022 we thought that would be the only international destination that we’d see for the entire year. Our flights were scheduled to transit through New Zealand, but at
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At the playground overlooking Freo’s “Containbow”. Still getting used to the thought that a beautiful day in May is the end of autumn in the southern hemisphere, with winter just a few weeks away. We’d better get used to it
Finally in Western Australia and reunited with family after more than 3 years apart. Fremantle will be home for the next 6 months. Bizarrely, despite some of the most draconian pandemic measures in the world, the failed exemption requests, the
We passed through Auckland, NZ on the way to Aus. Normally, with a 7-hour layover we’d see a few of the sights, but due to COVID, New Zealand still wasn’t allowing visitors. (We transited on April 29th and the border
In March of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded like a car crash in slow motion, so did our travel plans. Our April trip to Korea, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Australia slowly got whittled down, flight by cancelled flight, to just
OK, it’s not much but it’s better than nothing. First new country in almost 2 years, as we added the Bahamas to our list. We’d be lying if we said that we didn’t pick one of the Caribbean islands that
First trip out of the country in almost 2 years! Only a week, but the weather, food, and company were a welcome relief from the pandemic monotony.
This must be the unluckiest trip that we have ever planned! We bought tickets in 2019 only to see the flights cancelled in 2020 when the pandemic hit. Bought another set of tickets in 2021 when things seemed to be
Those cherry blossoms aren’t in Japan, but in South Korea. Although our South Korea plans got scrubbed in 2020 due to the pandemic, we will get there, just no idea when! ORIGINAL POST FROM BACK IN 2019: We’ve got our
On March 13th, 2020 Canada issued a level 3 travel advisory (“avoid non-essential travel”) for the entire globe. We’re grounded. Our thoughts are with those countries so much harder hit than Canada (so far), and we look forward to resuming
The coronavirus, COVID-19, is disrupting travel plans worldwide and ours are being affected too. We were scheduled to visit South Korea but that’s not going to happen now; even if we still wanted to go almost all airlines have cancelled
Upon our return from Africa in February we updated our list of UN countries visited; we now stand at 114! That total is composed of 113 of the 193 current member countries of the UN and one former member country
We were quite happy to leave Addis Ababa behind as we jumped on an early morning flight to Bahir Dar. First up was a boat ride on Lake Tana to visit the Ura Kidane Mihret Monastery, one of many on
We really enjoyed our visit to Asmara, Eritrea, our first stop after our marathon of flights from YVR. Lovely city with lots of interesting, but run down, Italian architecture. Very friendly people and great Italian food as well. One of
A great article from the Globe & Mail with inspiration for 2020 travels. An especially intriguing destination idea is Expo 2020 Dubai; we’ve never been to the UAE and maybe now is the time! See all their suggestions here: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-where-to-go-in-2020-a-globe-travellers-guide/
In January, 2020 we will fly to Rome then head to Africa to visit the countries of The Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somaliland (a quasi-independent, but unrecognized part of Somalia). We’ll finish up in Sudan and then