Welcome back to Mariola’s Travel Blog. The blog has been re-instated. You will be able to see the Italy posts but the photos haven’t been uploaded yet. We are now travelling through Canada in 2023 on an extended trip. Stay tuned for the posts. We have just landed in Vancouver,…
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The Tuscany Adventure 2019
We make our way across the Italian boot through Cisternino, Locorotondo to Giovinazzo
This morning we get to savor the spoils of our cooking class from last night and three large pieces of Tiramisu remain in our fridge. For those that did not know Tiramisu is a breakfast food , I remind you that it is soaked in good quality espresso coffee making…
France
Travel Days
We now have two long days of travel ahead of us as we traverse France again, this time in a north-westerly direction. Our friendly Google maps estimates the distance at 1100km and about 11 hours worth of travel, but as we plan to take mostly scenic roads we think it…
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Travel day to Montpellier
Today we farewell our lovely hosts and head east to cover 465km to Montpellier. The weather is perfect for travel 14C and overcast predicted to maybe rain a bit. We ask the GPS to keep us off paying autoroutes so as to keep the day scenic. This means an extra…
Mbalageti Lodge last day in the Serengeti
We decide to go north and explore around the Grumeti river. We find lots of zebra and gazelles. It seems a good area for these as lots are grazing around the lodge too. The Grumeti is the river the migration has to cross in both directions both to and from…
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Akagera National Park , Rwanda
We decide to take a day trip to Akagera National Park, this is along the eastern border of Rwanda with Tanzania and it is an approximately 1200km2 park with savannah grasslands. It follows the course of the Akagera river which arises from a spring and has been identified as the…