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In October 2009 we went on our second trip to the Middle East. We combined the Arab Emirates with Lebanon and Damascus in Syria. The latter was our final stop during our holidays and it became a trip that we will remember all of our lives: We saw the wonderful Umayyad Mosque, the old markets …
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In January 2025 we spent a very pleasant week in Santa Marta at the Colombian coast. Whilst our main goal was to go scuba diving we also did a day trip out of town to Tayrona National Park. It is conveniently located about 30 kilometres to the North of the city. We decided to use …
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In January 2025 we spent a week in Santa Marta. It was our first time in this sea side town of Colombia. Actually, it is a city with approximately 600,000 inhabitants located at the Caribbean coast. We had not dived for 9 years so we were pretty excited. In preparation we already did a refresher …
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When staying in Buenos Aires for a longer period of time - what we did in 2010 - you can use the city as a great base for many trips out of town. Read about two great day trips that we did: Visit of neighbouring country Uruguay by high speed ferry Day trip to the …
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In 2007 we visited Venezuela for the third time. As on our previous visits we had an incredible time in this beautiful country. Please read the first part of our 2007 visit here: Venezuelan Adventures - From Caracas to Morrocoy, Coro and Valencia Flying from Caracas to Canaima Back in Caracas we started our second …
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17 years ago that we visited Venezuela for the third time. We spent two weeks travelling in the country. Our itinerary was as follows: By rental car: Stay in the Morrocoy National Park Stop in the Venezuelan desert - Los Médanos de Coro Short visit of the city of Coro Visit of the city of …
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Last Updated on December 23, 2024 Last week (March 2018) we went skiing with our German friends from Dortmund, Ingo and Peter. They arrived on Saturday by plane and the next day we took a rental car to drive to our destination: Baqueira-Beret in the Catalan Pyrenees. After a four hours drive we could check …
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Last update: December 22, 2024 Hike from Cornudella de Montsant to Siurana During our summer 2018 in Barcelona we did a couple of out of town trips and discovered beautiful areas in Catalonia. As Michael read how amazing the Priorat area was supposed to be we decided to rent a car and drive there on …
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In July 2023 we visited a wonderful place about 350 km away from Barcelona: The old train station of Canfranc. It is located in a picturesque valley of the Pyrenees Mountains in Aragón at an height of 1200 meters above sea level. The train station was constructed in 1928 and after years of having been …
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Update: December 19, 2024 Even after nearly 7 years our visit to Yosemite is still very present. It definitely left an everlasting impression on us. Though we have seen many places in this world Yosemite certainly ranks among the top places that we have visited. I would definitely love to go back and spend more …
