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Three-days to ‘do’ any capital city may not seem very long but Carmel Stewart defied time and took a Viennese whirl. LOGICALLY three days are always of exactly the same duration – 72 hours, 4,320 minutes, 259,200 seconds, or innumerable nanoseconds – whether you are revising for an exam for which you ill-prepared, or hopping […]

This is a fantastic video of 2 people just enjoying life. I think it has been around on youtube for a while but I would like to share it with you here. This elderly couple were in the lobby at the Mayo Clinic where there is a piano I believe they were there for medical

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I have decided to do a short series of blog posts on the Inca Trail in Peru. The Inca Trail is approximately 43 kms in length starting at a place known as Kilometre 88 where the train stops and finishing at Machu Picchu. The highest point on trail is Dead Woman’s Pass at 4,200 metres.

Carmel Stewart THE Japanese may love golf, Scotland and all things tartan but when it comes to returning the admiration and esteem it would be hard to beat the Tanzanians. Their appreciation of the Japanese is evidenced by the fact that 95 percent of their cars come from the Land of the Rising Sun and

The other day I was looking around for interesting videos about travel for the over 50’s and came across this video I haven’t used these people but they appear to be specialising in providing trips for the over 50’s to out of the way places in Australia. I was wondering if anyone of our readers

Carmel Stewart One whistle you’ll struggle to hear anywhere in Peru is that of the train. There is no national railway network in the country. At one stage is its evolution it was decided that trains were expensive and unlikely to makes a profit over such a vast and mountainous terrain, so they were dropped

Carmel Stewart I REALLY admire people who can whistle. Not the standard put-your-lips-together-and-blow a la Humphrey Bogart but that carefully-crafted, finger, thumb, tongue and air combination which produces a head turning, ear blistering blast. The policemen and women in Lima have not honed their ability to whistle using digits and lungs but use the little

I do a lot of solo traveling here are some things I do to keep myself safe. Try and arrive at your destination during daylight hours. When you arrive in the arrivals hall look like you know where you are going – even if you don’t. Don’t dither and don’t look lost. Organise your transport

The photo we have used in the header was taken on a recent trip to Africa where we went on an eight day safari. We came across some hippos lazing around in a pool and two of the hippos were mating. I took a whole series of shots to capture the moment which I will