Yesterday Mom and I took off on our road trip down to Spain for “The Travel Blog Exchange” aka #TBEX, the world’s leading conference for Travel Bloggers. Somehow we turned a few day blogging conference in Spain into a wonderful road trip itinerary where #TBEX is just one […]
Last weekend Jess, Shane, Mom and I went down to Utrecht for the day for a small #TRLT tweetmeet. We met two of our Dutch members from The Road Less Travelled Twitter chat, Antonette and Martijn who participate under the account @we12travel. It was certainly the most beautiful […]
As promised, this post is dedicated to Shane Dallas (or more commonly known as @thetravelcamel) my fellow founder of #TRLT, our weekly Twitter travel chat which stands for The Road Less Travelled. Shane is a professional public speaker, traveller and photographer. His photography was what stood out to […]
Yippeee!!! Just got my 75th review for Vol. 2 “Backpacks and Bra Straps” on amazon.com! If you’ve read and loved it too, please take the time to leave your review for baby #2 http://www.amazon.com/Sihpromatum-Backp…/…/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1… If you don’t have amazon, goodreads always works too! 🙂 And lastly, if […]
Last year I read Anne Frank’s Diary, for the first time, thanks to Jess who lent me the copy she’s had since high school. It took me longer than I expected to finally make it to Amsterdam to see THE authentic Secret Annexe where Anne […]
This is no April Fool’s Joke, though it does feel like it might be one. Six years ago today, I stepped onto Dutch soil for the first time with just 40 euros in my pocket, wondering if the man of my dreams would be there to greet me. […]
We left Alkmaar around 9:00 am right as a nationwide power outage hit. “That’s strange” I thought as Kees yelled from the shower, “why did the light just go out!?” When Mom came over, ready to be the chauffeur for the day, we quickly learned that her house […]
You may find it a bit ironic that as an author of two books, I have never been part of or attended a SINGLE book club. I don’t know why, but for some reason the opportunity never presented itself until my dear friend Jessica, who is also a […]
*Are countries that I have not been to yet, but one or more of my family has. ALBANIA ANDORRA […]
As many of you know I have been collecting photos of readers with their copy of my book around the world and posting them in my “Around the World” Album. Couples, women, men, grannies, families, travellers, I have had readers send in photos from 35 different […]
If you don’t know this about me, I am terrified of flying. It’s stupid. Ridiculous, I know. And it wasn’t always that way or I probably never would’ve set foot on that tiny, surely unreliable Twin Otter to fly over the Himalayas to Lukla from Kathmandu.
I was honoured to be nominated by fellow author and traveller, Brenda (@BrendaLeeFree) for Thomas Cook’s Explore the Elements photo competition. Each contestant is required to choose four photos that represent the four elements: Fire, Earth, Water and Air It was so hard to narrow my thousands of […]
Gravensteen Castle. But to me, it is a walk through “Game of Thrones” or “Outlander” imagining myself in an earlier age so far removed from my own. Because this city put me in awe, I have decided to talk less and show more. Below is a photo […]
Three years ago Hotel Carlton Gent was bought and redesigned by three brothers. The oldest brother, Steven, had this dream of running a hotel and in a very sibling way managed to get the other two brothers on board. It was great getting the chance to talk to […]
Today I arrived in Ghent, Belgium after a days drive through Holland, Belgium and France on backroads and am staying in the Carlton Hotel Gent where we have a lovely European view out our 5th story window. I took lots of photos to share with you AND, always […]
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