Despite the early morning hours, our little bamboo hut in the pristine island of Malapascua in the Philippines was hot. I was tossing and turning in the bed, half-asleep and not really sure what woke me up in the first place. A few minutes passed when it occurred to me that it wasn’t the heat [...]

We’ve recently crossed the 6 month mark on the trip and needless to say the time’s gone by in a flash! The countries visited so far, though hardly high in number, have each influenced and impacted us and our journey in ways hard to verbalize in a single blog post.   But this post isn’t [...]

Having a chance to visit a foreign country during one of its festivals is for many people something not to be missed – whether it’s Holi in India, Songkran in Thailand or even Octoberfest in Germany. In our case it has recently been Galungan in Bali, Indonesia. When we first found out that one of [...]

After a significant and undeserved break from the blog due to several reasons ranging from injured ankles to injured laptops we’re back on the web world. We were recently nominated by Bobbi and Ric of HeelsandWheels to participate in a project for travel bloggers which sounded like a lot of fun! Here we look back [...]

Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia was our first stop immediately after our travels in the Middle East and for me also the first time ever in South-East Asia, that’s why I was really keen to see how it looks and feels and whether it’s different from what I’d imagined. Of course, there’s no better way to [...]

Iran for us was not so much about the many mosques visited there (although they were quite magnificent), or even about Persian carpets or cats that they are known for. If we had to summarize our Iran experience in one word it would be – Iranians. Here we give you a short glimpse of the [...]