Eleven visited countries (including five brand new ones!), exploring England and Scotland, solo travelling, travelling as a couple, amazing people, great memories, freedom, love and happiness. But also difficult decisions, people’s bad intentions, disappointments, changes. A lot of changes. What a year!
Category: Visited countries
How to find the best car rental in Iceland and other ways of travelling
Expensive prices, broken engine, blown up tyres, huge fines for invisible scratches, additional fees for “needed” insurance. Internet stories about car rentals in Iceland can sometimes be like taken straight from the horror movie. Is it really that bad? How to find the best car rental in Iceland? What other options for traveling around Iceland you have?
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Madagascar: The beginning. Nosy Be – Hell Ville, Ambondrona & Ambatoloaka
It was still dark. The plane was going lower and lower, the pressure was blocking my ears. „Just a few more minutes and we will be in Africa!” – I thought – „In Madagascar!”. In the country, that always seemed so far away and unreachable for me, that I’ve never even dreamed of going there. Such an exotic and unusual, nothing like what I’ve ever seen before. I couldn’t wait to touch it, to feel it, to experience it all! Lemurs, chameleons, baobabs. Couple more minutes and we touched the ground…
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Madagascar – the bad story
I went back to the tent, opened the entrance and crawled inside. The night was really dark and it took me some time before I found the torch and turned it on. Suddenly, I felt that something is not right. My heart was beating faster and faster, pumping too much blood to my brain. I saw the black night sky through the back side of the tent. The material was freely blowing in the wind. There was a huge hole in the rear wall! I didn’t understand what was going on. And then it hit me. „Paulina!!!!” I screamed.
Discovering English history – Salisbury, Stonehenge & London
Red brick houses, rich history, local Ale and sun – this is how I see England, and this was exactly how it welcomed us last weekend. In the need of city break – we booked spontaneous trip to Salisbury. This small town is mostly known as a stop on the way to the best known pre-historic monument in Europe – Stonehenge and home of the Magna Carta in Salisbury Cathedral – but it’s not only this.
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Philippines – the beginning of my solo Asian trip
It all felt a bit surreal. I was on a bus going from Abu Dhabi to Dubai airport. Passing all the enormous and shining buildings. I was just about to fly to the furthest place on the western hemisphere that I’ve been so far. Only by myself. I was so excited! Philippines – the land of paradise beaches, coconut trees, colorful reefs, lush jungle, and friendly people was waiting for me.
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[Asia 2016] How did I end up in Asia? Philippines, Malaysia & India
10 days, 3 (+2) countries, 11 flights, several boat trips, motorbikes, bus, ferry, jeepney, car & tuk tuk rides.Walking, hitch-hiking, swimming and snorkeling. Laughing, talking, experiencing, smiling, meeting, eating, not-sleeping, singing, drinking, dancing, photographing, tasting and enjoying life!
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USA Road trip – Monument Valley and Gooseneck on San Jose River
Coffee on the old-school gas station by the empty road. Sun shining straight into your eyes. $1 Sunglasses on your head. Wind blowing your hair, country music playing out loud in the car, black highway and the welcoming space in front of us, asking just to travel more, to travel further… After adventures of this morning, we left Arizona to come back to Utah again!
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USA Road Trip – Grand Canyon and Lake Powell
Grand Canyon is a bucket list travel destination! How is it to experience this natural wonder and where to go for the best views?
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USA Road trip – Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
Desert painted with amazing colours of different minerals, petrified forest with the trees that lived there over 200 million years ago and now are beautiful looking stones. Majestic sunset, magic sunrise. A sky full of stars. Sound of the coyotes breaking the total silence. How was the first day and night of the USA Road trip?
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