Travel

We were meeting at a relatively reasonable time this morning 8.30am. We had read that the Rainforest Cafe had the best reviews for food in La Fortuna and we only had one meal left to try it so we threw our stuff together and headed down the road to try it out. The coffee was fantastic. We are slowly getting used to having full cream milk. Its gonna be weird going back to skinny milk when we ar

This place is Frickin crazy my peeps. Having said that its pretty awesome too. Still jetlagged and groggy we got ourselves up and squared away travel arrangements for the week before we hired a driver to take us around the city. Yes....I know.... I39m a big proponent of public transit and there is a metro stop ten minutes away...However...there are just certain ways to do things in 115 heat

Sad it was to leave my girls I can say we shed a few tears as we loaded up my rental car and I drove off leaving them to catch their flight back to the UK. We have had a most wonderful time together.And we had had a whirlwind 3 days in San Fran we all fell in love with this beautiful city in spite of it being cooler then we expected and very windy. Movies of California always make you think

ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtHello again from SwissylandHope everyone reading this is well and happy Please can I just ask that you let me know if you enjoy the blogs and if you dont. If you do enjoy them please tell your friends and family I really would like to get as many hits as possible and any feedback is always welcome. Well thats the begging

Once you walk around Kathmandu you can find Chitwan offers practically on every corner. Obviously you dont need to book any tours and just do it on your own. Its a matter of choice really. After spending two whole days in bed with my stomach all over the place and crazy Holi soon after I just felt like I really needed to get away from Kathmandu for a while and since I didnt really want

That thing was HUGE. Like gigantic. The plane I mean. We were awed with the number of people waiting at the boarding room as well as the long queue. Wow. This A380800 really can take up to 800 people And its almost filled up. Cant see any empty seat. I wonder how many of these people got the 40 discount that we got though.Its all started when my friend D told me theres a Lufthans

Day 14 May 17 2013I left Tallahassee early the sky was still dark and it was cool. When I got on he highway there was very little traffic it almost seemed like I was on an open road in the west almost. I am excited to be riding without all of the congestion.I love watching the sun rise the period of time before the sun actually rises and the sky is starting to get light is very beautiful an

Id been back in bonnie Scotland for a little over three months. I spent the first couple of weeks catching up with friends family and the like as well as enjoying some home comfort food that I hadnt had for over a year. Kebab haggis chippie in particular Then I decided to take this whole teaching thing a little more seriously so I spent the next month of being home in Edinburgh complet

These miles of dry stone wallsThat hold in ploughed fields and kingly hallsThe dead of centuries in hills of sandThe stones that bind themAre proud of what lies behind them And varied as the counties in this curious land.Pedaling into the wind and driving ran over the top of the Morfoot Hills towards Edinburgh yesterday I finally understood that the dry in this lyric does not refer to the usual

1 Hoh River, Washington In early October 2012 we packed our tent and drove into the Hoh Rainforest for a short day hike and overnight stay. Located on Western Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the Hoh is one of the largest temperate rainforests in the United States, averaging 12 feet of rainfall per year with another 30 inches of condensed mist moisture. The forest floor is blanketed with mosses and ferns, and its thick canopy is dominated by tree species such as the Sitka Spruce and the Western Hemlock, as well as maples, alders, cottonwoods, red cedars, and coastal Douglas firs. Pictured here is one of those massive trees, just next to our camp. Fallen and worn by the Hoh River, it made the perfect spot for morning coffee, a few soft-focus self-timed shots, and warming ourselves in the shining sun before venturing into the rainforest. The campground near the Visitor's Center is open year-round and allows access to the Hoh River Trail, a 17.3-mile hike to Glacier Meadows, on the shoulder of Mount Olympus. Hopefully, we will hike this complete rainforest-to-glacier trail this summer. - This postcard comes to us from Kathryn Nichols, a freelance photographer, designer, and artist living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Her most recent adventure included a four-month trip across the U.S. in an Airstream. She is currently a student at MatadorU studying travel writing and photography. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr.