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Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

by Runaway Brit 4 Comments on Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

I’ve been travelling the world, on-and-off, for almost 16 years—ever since an adventurous 4 week train journey took me through Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic into Romania back in the days when they each had separate currencies. …

My Top 5 Wow-Factor Destinations

by Runaway Brit 11 Comments on My Top 5 Wow-Factor Destinations

According to the dictionary, spectacular is an adjective that means ‘beautiful in a dramatic and eye-catching way’; synonyms of which are striking, picturesque, breathtaking, arresting, glorious, and my two favourites, sublime, and awesome. Awesome as in the Romantic poets’ …

10 Awesome Movie Locations Around The World

by Runaway Brit 10 Comments on 10 Awesome Movie Locations Around The World

When I travel I don’t deliberately seek out places that have been used as film locations, but every now and then I happen to stumble into one. Here is a round-up of the 10 best movie locations that I have …

Perfect Peaks. A #FriFotos Photo Essay

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While looking through my photographs in order to participate in this week’s #FriFotos, which has the theme of ‘Peaks’, I realised something.

I have not spent nearly enough time in the mountains.

I love mountains, but tend to migrate more …

Three Days in Paradise: Sailing the San Blas

by Runaway Brit 4 Comments on Three Days in Paradise: Sailing the San Blas

You have been travelling around South America and you want to get to Central or North America but the Darien Gap makes land travel impossible. You could fly: the quick and efficient method.

Or you can cruise the warm waters …

Stahlratte: The Pearl of the Caribbean

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With no road passing through the Darien Gap, land travel between Central and South America is impossible and the only way to pass is to fly or to go by sea. As the route from Colombia to Panama takes …

Why You Should Visit Cartagena

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If you have been following my journey through South America on Facebook or Twitter then you will already know that I am in love with Colombia, a country that only had a place on our itinerary as we were …

The Beautiful Beaches of Parque Tayrona, Colombia

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“I’m not going to Parque Tayrona because I’ve been to the San Blas islands and I’ve heard that the beaches are not as beautiful” said the tanned Australian girl to her friend as they stood chatting on the …

Santa Marta. The Beach: So Near, Yet So Far!

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After nearly five months of chasing the end of winter around South America I was beginning to dream of spending some time lazing on the warm sand of a tropical beach, so it was with great excitement that I …

Meet the Escobars – Medellin’s Most Unique Tour

by Runaway Brit 13 Comments on Meet the Escobars – Medellin’s Most Unique Tour

It’s a rainy Tuesday afternoon: thunder is raging overhead and I am sitting in the lounge of a 64 year old man. He sits opposite me, looking older than his years. He is dressed casually and wears a US Polo …

Medellin: From Murderous to Marvellous

by Runaway Brit 4 Comments on Medellin: From Murderous to Marvellous

Let’s get the grisly facts out of the way. Medellin is Colombia’s second largest city and—thanks to the thriving cocaine trade in Colombia—was once famously known as the ‘murder capital of the world’. During the 80s and 90s, Medellin was …

Open Wide! – Visiting the Dentist in Colombia

by Runaway Brit 17 Comments on Open Wide! – Visiting the Dentist in Colombia

After having Lasik surgery in Vietnam, I am very happy to have cosmetic procedures during my travels. Perhaps this is incredibly vain of me, I don’t know. But with prices in the UK and Sweden being so high, …

Be Prepared for Bogota—what the travel guides don’t tell you!

by Runaway Brit 6 Comments on Be Prepared for Bogota—what the travel guides don’t tell you!

Bogota is the sixth capital city that we have visited on our trip around South America, and so far it has proven to be the most difficult to enter, get around in, and to leave. One of the reasons for …

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