Malta can be viewed in some ways as part Italian, part English, with a healthy dollop of Tunisia all piled upon a mountain of history.
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The Vatican Museums and the Borghese Gallery are two giants of Rome’s amazing cultural institutions. Each venue offers an extraordinary collection of art, but with different focuses and stories. The difference in their scope, scale, and ambiance is what really sets them apart.
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2024 was the first time we visited any of the Balkan Countries. Our 2024 Balkan experience has so far been limited to the Western Balkans, countries on the region’s western edge, along the Adriatic coast.
We wanted to visit Montenegro earlier this year, but having experienced how hot and busy Croatia was in August we decided to wait till slow season.
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We first became aware of the Clipper Line in April 2015 whilst in Port de France Martinique. We saw the Royal Clipper in dry Dock and it was love at first sight. Yvonne’s comment was “we are going to sail on that vessel some day”.
And we did. in January 2016. We were in Barbados doing a housesit and found out that the Royal Clipper sailed into and out of Barbados. A quick search and a screaming last-minute deal and we were off for a cruise in the southern Windward Islands and we Loved it!
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In the past twelve years of housesitting we have spent a cumulative total of over four years living in the Caribbean Windwards Islands (Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada).
When asked “Aren’t we scared about the risk of hurricanes in the Caribbean?” we have always responded with “not really as we spend most of our time in the south where hurricanes are less common”. To be more accurate we are usually between 12 and 14 degrees North of the Equator. Most of the storms we have seen form head our way briefly then turn north. Some fizzle out and some turn into Tropical Storms or Hurricanes and do damage further North’.
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“Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness, I am sure to be filled”.
— Henry Thoreau
2023 The Year in Review
As you probably know by now, we like to do a recap of the past year in our annual New Years newsletter. So here you go.
2023 has been one of our busiest travel years to date; our travels took us right around the globe! We started heading West in January and keep on moving in that direction, which of course eventually became East.
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