While staying at the Lost and Found Hostel in Panama's Fortuna Forest Reserve, we followed their advice and picked one of their recommended activities to do in the nearby area and spent a day exploring the gorgeous natural pools of…
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From Panama City, the first destination of my Central America trip and the furthest east I'd be traveling, we made our way by bus aross the country to Santa Catalina, the town that serves as the hub for visiting the…
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I've been lucky enough to snorkel some of the world's most beautiful spots. From the colourful reefs of southern Thailand, to the exquisite wildlife off the coast of Oman, the surreal landscapes of the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador and the…
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I've been manifesting this trip to Central America since last summer when I quit my job and decided to take what I coined an "adult gap year", given I was taking it aged 28, instead of the typical gap year…
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When planning out my Central America trip (or any trip, for that matter), I pulled up my Google Maps and peered at all the various pins I had dropped throughout the region over my many years of travel research. I…
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My Central America trip would turn out to cover five countries in five weeks; the first three (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua) with my partner Tobi and the last two (Guatemala, Belize) with Ina, one of my best friends from Salzburg. Our first stop was…
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Ever since our day spa experience in December last year at Das Edelweiss in the snowy mountains of Großarl, Austria, I was looking forward to our next chance to indulge. We've spent the past few weekends skiing in Austria and…
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I love to ski! Here are all the places I have skied so far across Austria, my current home. NOTE: This is an incomplete list that I hope to add on to as I continue to get out into the…
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We had attempted to ski on Saturday. The sky was bright blue, the snow conditions perfect. But sometimes best laid plans... the traffic was busy so we only pulled up to Saalbach-Hinterglemm around 10:30am and then spent a solid hour…
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One of my favourite things about living in Salzburg, where I can see the mountains from my balcony, is that I can take the train or the car for an hour or two to any of the hundreds of ski…
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Salzburg in winter is just magic. After a full year, with a bright spring, a vibrant summer and a colourful autumn, the year settles down for its hibernation. The weather is all over the place - cosy, rainy days mixed…
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We spent the final days of 2024 and the first days of the new year on a mystery roadtrip, an epic three-country adventure planned entirely by my partner with my only clues being that I needed a suitcase full of winter…
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I can say, hand on heart, that Stockholm is one of my new favourite cities in Europe! We loved our time in Sweden so much this winter. Arriving in Sweden marks my 68th country visited. It is also the final…
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We loved our time in Sweden this winter and I can absolutely say that Stockholm is one of my new favourite cities in Europe. We visited the city as part of a mystery roadtrip which my partner planned for me with my…
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