It seems to be an unfortunate but common reality that many people who travel, have not in fact travelled very much in their own country. I am one of those people. Most of my travel around Britain has been to visit friends and family in different parts of the island, though mostly England. However, I…
Ayurvedic medicine is one of the oldest medical sciences in human history. Taking a lot of influences from the already well established Chinese medicine, the Ayurveda created a path and an identity of its own, uniting body, mind and soul as integral and indivisible part of humans. Nowadays, Ayurveda is reaching west, at a time…
Cuenca was our second favourite city of all the ones we visited in South America, and in total, we only spent 21 days there (compared to 41 days in Buenos Aires and 43 in Lima), which felt about right for us. As the third largest city in Ecuador (Guayaquil and Quito come in first and…
As part of a new travel blogger’s relay race of questions, we’ve been nominated by Colleen to answer her 11 questions. My job is to then nominate six new bloggers to take the baton, and give them 11 new questions for them to answer, and so on. My answers 1. What is your most embarrassing…
December was a month of work and family, though there was definitely still some travel in there, but not quite on the scale of previous months. What did we do? For the first week of the month, we were both in London, doing chores we could only do there, but we also went to a…
More often than not, it’s the simplest ingredients that make the best meals, and nowhere in Ecuador did we find this to be more so the case than at the Juice Factory in Vilcabamba. Vilcabamba is apparently famous in Ecuador for being a place where people often live to be over 100, earning the area…
Occasionally, when other travellers we meet learn that we are or have been renting an apartment in a given location, instead of staying in a hotel or hostel, as they perhaps expect, they get a look of awe on their face that seems to say either “wow, I wish I could afford that” or “right,…
November saw us reach 300 days of continuous travel and also the end of our time in South America and the start of our next phase of travelling in Europe! What did we do? We spent the first two and a half weeks of November in Cuenca, Ecuador, working and exploring the city. We then…
Today is our last day in South America. As this post goes live, we’ll be packing our bags for the last time on this continent and making our way to Quito International Airport to catch a flight to Madrid, via Bogotá. So, we’re taking a moment to look back at the last 10 months, the…
During our first week in Ecuador’s capital, we didn’t manage to find out as much about vegetarian Quito as we would’ve liked. It was only on our last full day that we discovered La Cuchara de San Marcos, which was a great way to end our time in the city, but a shame we hadn’t…
October was a busy month, with more focus on travel than work compared to last month! What did we do? We spent the first few days of October in the north of Peru, first in Piura and then by the beach in Máncora before taking an overnight bus across the boarder to Guayaquil in Ecuador….
It was the elusive yet ever-pervasive pull of the gringo trail that lead us to visit Paracas, and the obligation to justify that force that compels me to write about our visit now. Since being in southern Peru for the last two months, I’d heard about the Ballestas islands on several occasions, mostly as they…