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UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 7 Feb 2026 | By debo | Views [69]
Hey! 1 week pre trip and i found my journal from the trip where Estefy and I met and thought maybe would keep a record of our return trip to South America, this time 12 years on!
We are spending the last week saying good bye to all our friends ... Read more >
WESTERN SAHARA | Tue, 27 Jan 2026 | By shaz | Views [40]
This part of my trip I visit Western Sahara. I crossed the El Guerguerat border between Mauritania and Western Sahara. One of those places you don’t really think about until you’re actually there. This stretch of desert sits in a long running ... Read more >
MAURITANIA | Thu, 15 Jan 2026 | By shaz | Views [61]
So I made it. Arrived in Nouakchott at 2am.
No transfer waiting at arrivals...fucking typical! Sat down, no airport wifi, started mentally preparing to stay there until daylight. Noticed nobody else there except me and an airport guy. He asked if ... Read more >
BELGIUM | Thu, 25 Dec 2025 | By shaz | Views [23]
Iran already feels like a dream because I'm now in Brussels and suddenly it’s full on Christmas. There's twinkly lights, decorations, festive vibes and me, blinking like I’ve time travelled. Checked into my hostel which is actually lovely, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [122]
The Galapagos Islands is the laboratory where Charles Darwin began developing his theory of evolution in 1835 . It took him more than 20 years of mulling, prodding from geologist Charles Lyell and botanist Joseph Hooker and competition from Alfred Russel ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 20 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [96]
The English are a strange lot. They consider the Battle of Hastings one of the most famous events in English history. It was the only time that England was invaded by a foreign power, their king was slain on the battlefield and their army was soundly ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 17 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [103]
We finished our Christmas letter—even checked it twice—and (e)mailed it off to all of the good little boy and girls. If you didn’t get yours, try to be nicer next year. When we still felt that we needed a little Christmas—right ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 13 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [107]
Despite English Heritage sites going back in time from castles, priories and monasteries to Roman villas and even Neolithic sites, John’s favorite site opened for business in 1939. Its existence wasn’t known to the general public until 1970 ... Read more >
IRAN | Fri, 12 Dec 2025 | By shaz | Views [41]
From Largs to Tehran, the longest way possible. In London, where I went wedding food tasting then Southall for wedding clothes alterations. You can guess which one I preferred. Then a quick pit stop in Belgium, overnight chaos in the middle of nowhere ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 9 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [93]
Cambridge seemed like a good compromise. It’s only an hour train ride from London but not too far from East Anglia’s English Heritage sites. John picked our AirBnB, in part, for the free parking, a real luxury in this college town. It’... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 5 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [97]
You might wonder why we are visiting the Isle of Wight at this cold and dreary time of year. The short answer would be Osborne House.
Faced with a growing family and the increasing pressures of court life, Queen Victoria pined for “a place of ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thu, 4 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [94]
ISLE OF WIGHT
Do you remember verse from the old Beatles’ song “When I’m 64”? ♫ Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it′s not too dear ♫ Well, here we are . . . it isn’t too ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sun, 30 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [127]
When Henry VIII wasn’t busy tearing down churches, monasteries and abbeys or doing away with excess-to-needs wives, he indulged his paranoia by building castles. Actually more like fortresses, some 30 “castles” were constructed as part ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 29 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [136]
It rained hard on Thursday and Saturday’s forecast isn’t much better. Today would be the best day for birding at Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve. It took us a half-hour for he eight-mile drive on England’s narrow, winding ... Read more >
CAPE VERDE | Thu, 27 Nov 2025 | By shaz | Views [11]
Lisbon was unplanned. It was meant to be another airport sleepover. But after Budapest’s strip search and near case of hypothermia, I cracked. I treated myself to a bed. Wild, I know. I found the cheapest place online but it meant two ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 26 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [194]
The temperature was forecast to never get much above freezing so we bundled up for the walk to Earl’s Court Underground station. Thirty minutes later we were at Russell Square with only a short walk to the British Museum.
The Museum ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 25 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [175]
The Eurostar “Chunnel” train from Paris to London may cost a bit more than flying but it is much more civilized. We cleared both EU and UK immigration at Gare du Lyon in Paris, carried our own luggage onto the train and were in London in ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sat, 22 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [106]
Connie had had a list of places in Metz that she wanted to visit, most important and—as it turned out—the most impressive Metz Cathedral and Musée de la Coeur d’Or. I picked our AirBnB less on location and price but because it ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thu, 20 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [98]
When we bade adieu to Alsace this morning and headed off for Lorraine we weren’t counting on snow! Thankfully, it didn’t stick to the roads and it did pretty-up the drive to Nancy. We had spent the night here in twenty-eleven but hadn’... Read more >
FRANCE | Wed, 19 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [104]
We considered returning to Colmar today—the sun was shining and we wanted to see our favorite town in its glory. When we realized that Colmar’s neighbor, Eguisheim, was on the list of “Les Plus Beaux Villages de France,” we re-... Read more >
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Tue, 18 Nov 2025 | By shaz | Views [10]
Arrived in Abu Dhabi on zero sleep, looking like an extra from The Walking Dead. Dragged myself onto a bus, and rolled into my £14-a-night accommodation at 7:55am. Owner blinked. Check-in was noon. I asked if I could dump my bags and collapse on ... Read more >
BAHRAIN | Tue, 18 Nov 2025 | By shaz | Views [9]
My last night in Doha was a near miss. The driving there is genuinely unhinged. I survived. My bag almost didn’t.
At the airport they informed me my backpack needed wrapping because of the rat holes courtesy of Niue. I refused to pay for their ... Read more >
FRANCE | Tue, 18 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [85]
Clement’s AirBnB has everything we need including a garage barely wide enough for our car. Rather than futzing with the car we walked the 1½ miles to old town to get reacquainted with one of our favorite cities.
We crossed the ... Read more >
FRANCE | Mon, 17 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [93]
Alsace is one of our favorite areas in France—and not only because Connie’s family has an Alsatian heritage going back to Napoleonic times. When we first visited in 2011, distant relatives, Nicole and Thaddeus, treated us to a tour of the ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sun, 16 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [117]
I had almost forgotten our 2015 “drive by” visit to Citadel in Besançon. This time we’ll stay for a few days, if only to break up the six-hour drive from Lyon to Strasbourg. Traffic and parking being what they are, we decided ... Read more >