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Vrbnik, Krk Island, Croatia

30/08/2019 Written by Helen
A turret on the medieval city walls of Vrbnik, Krk

As well as family and friends coming out to visit us in Istria, we now have the opportunity to meet up with people who come to Croatia on holiday. We still find this very exciting as we get the best of both worlds – entertaining and travelling. Good friends from Didsbury were returning to Croatia, […]

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Mallorca : One To Avoid…

30/07/2019 Written by Helen
Our view of the bins, Sorry, pool...

It’s hard to imagine that there could really be anywhere to avoid on Mallorca. We’d discounted Magaluf, as unfortunately we’re no longer in our early twenties, and so, when booking places to stay, we were pretty confident that every place we chose, would be a winner. When we travel we do our homework. We read […]

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Petit Sant Miquel, Mallorca

07/07/2019 Written by Helen

After spending time on the western side of Mallorca, we decided to explore the eastern side of the island and found a gem of a hotel, called Petit Sant Miquel in the very pretty and very traditional village of Calonge. Renovated and opened in August 2018 by a Mallorcan couple, it is the epitome of […]

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The Fire Festival, Oprtalj

28/06/2019 Written by Helen

Visiting friends were recently treated to a real spectacle when they came to stay with us in Istria – the Oprtalj Festival of Fire, on Sunday 23rd June. This is apparently a very old tradition, which is being revived in this beautiful town – on the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist, […]

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Lluna Aqua Hotel, Sóller, Mallorca

15/06/2019 Written by Helen

By sheer coincidence, the second hotel we booked on our recent trip to Mallorca – the Lluna Aqua Hotel in Sóller – just turned out to be the sister hotel of the Brondo Architect Hotel where we stayed in Palma. We had no idea that they were connected but both just exuded real style for […]

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Ipša Wine Bar, Oprtalj, Istria

13/06/2019 Written by Helen

Ipša, in their own words, is …a family estate which has been producing extra virgin olive oil and wine for many years…situated in Ipši, a small hamlet surrounded by olive groves in the vicinity of Oprtlaj, a picturesque medieval village in north western Istria… We’re very lucky to live somewhere so close to somewhere that […]

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Ca’n Llimona, Soller, Mallorca

28/05/2019 Written by Helen
As pretty as a picture...Ca'n Llimona, Soller

This restaurant is probably known, and frequented by, all of our friends who’ve ever been to Sóller, but just in case you, like us, didn’t know about it, here’s the low-down on Ca’n Llimona. Tucked away down a side street called Carrer de la Victoria, just off the main drag, Carrer de sa Lluna, it […]

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Brondo Architect Hotel, Palma

27/05/2019 Written by Helen
Brondo Architect Hotel, Palma

Over the last few years, we’ve been very lucky to be able to pack in a huge amount of travel – as well as actually move abroad, relocating from Manchester to Istria, in northern Croatia. We’ve spent the last couple of years renovating a stone house and exploring our new environment. But, one place has […]

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Exploring Ephesus, Turkey

02/05/2019 Written by Helen

I’ve always had a fascination with ancient places such as Knossos, Pompeii, Delphi and Ephesus and we are slowly but surely ticking them off, on our travel wish list. As yet, we’ve not holidayed in Turkey and haven’t had any plans to do so, so I thought Ephesus would have to be put on hold. […]

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Retail Therapy in Marrakech

20/03/2019 Written by Helen
Souk Shopping : Marrakech

Marrakech is up there as one of the craziest, loudest, most colourful, chaotic, beautiful, exhausting and intriguing cities we’ve ever visited. Hot and dusty (even in January when we’ve visited), it’s somewhere that we only do for a couple of days before escaping to the calmness of the coast, and the gorgeous Essaouira. You can […]

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Hotel Grand Wiesler, Graz

19/03/2019 Written by Helen
Hotel Grand Wiesler, Graz

Sometimes, you see somewhere online and you just have to go. No matter what. This happened recently when I discovered the website for the Hotel Grand Wiesler, in Graz, in the Styria region of southern Austria. When we lived in Manchester, the thought of seeing a hotel online, in another country, and planning a spontaneous […]

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The Backstreets of Bergamo

15/03/2019 Written by Helen
Festival time : Piazza Vecchia, Citta Alta, Bergamo

Bergamo, located west of Milan, in the region of Lombardy, is beautiful. Often overlooked for the more glitzy (and possibly more brash) Milan, it has everything. There is the lower, more modern town (Citta Bassa) – although, as well as your retail therapy kicks, you can still soak up the history of the town. Wide […]

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