Author: Oliver
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This is Masada…
Read more: This is Masada…Imagine a fortress on the top of a desert mountain, overlooking the Dead Sea. Sheer cliffs rise up 400 m on the eastern side, wrapping around the mountain and joining with 90 m high cliffs on the western side. As we arrived a the site, I was taken by the immense height of the cliffs…
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Happy New Year!
Read more: Happy New Year!What a phenomenal year 2014 has been. We feel blessed to be on the road as a family, seeing and experiencing the world around us. Having had an amazing experience throughout Israel, we were ready to move on to our next destination – Tanzania. However, with the magic of flexibility that we have in our…
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Special Report – Car Rentals!
Read more: Special Report – Car Rentals!We have had a number of questions about how we are getting around in Europe, so I put this post together to share our approach and experiences with respect to car rentals. You can also find this on our “RTW Planning Resources” under “Ground Transportation – Car Rentals“. Renting a car may not seem like…
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Apps along the way!
Read more: Apps along the way!As we’ve been visiting different cities, I have been experimenting with some different travel apps to use on our devices/phones to help make our travel either more efficient or more fun. For example, using the Huntzz app, Zoe did a blog post of a scavenger hunt in Vincenza, and Mikhaila posted a hunt in Verona. …
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Two Turkish Delights…
Read more: Two Turkish Delights…Imagine a place where the “above-world” and the “under-world” meet. What could this place look like? We found one intersection of “above/underworld” in Istanbul…the Topkapi Palace and the Basilica Cistern. Topkapi Palace This was the palace used by the sultans up until the 19th century, and was the centre of political power in the Ottoman…