What sort of reasons can you think of to want to travel to South Africa? Stunning landscapes? Beaches? Cultural diversity, maybe? Surely all those are very relevant on your list of things that make Africa’s most southern country worth a visit but as I recently found out there is one more major reason why a trip to Cape Town or Johannesburg can not fall anything short of amazing. It is: …
Our friends at Contiki love working with cool, enthusiastic and travel-loving people and the time has come when like every year Contiki recruits bright, fun folks to join the European team and become a brand ambassador. This time around they asked us to tell our readers about this opportunity because rumor has it that our readers are exactly that – easygoing, smart travel enthusiasts (that also happen to be above …
Two of the things I most love about traveling are 1. taking photos of people and 2. discovering the unexpected. When I travel I often wander the streets, studying people’s faces, the way they walk, talk, interact. I wonder who they might be, inventing little stories for myself what sort of lives they might be living, whether they’re happy, what dreams and ambitions they have, where they’re going in life. …
Curaçao, long before popping on my radar as an actual place one could visit, had existed in my consciousness as a sweet blue liquor that we used to mix with orange juice in my teenage years and giggle over drinking green cocktails while listening to “Here comes the hotstepper” or whatever 90s dance track was chic at our local disco at the time. When not too long ago the opportunity …
Just like yours, my life gets crazy sometimes. Sometimes it’s all about 7am flights, 8 am shootings and deadlines deadlines deadlines. Mix in living off fast food for days, not sleeping for more than 4 hours a night and some nasty weather and you’ll be ready for a time out in no time.
The days leading up to my stay in Tyrol were just like that. In 3 days I had …
Are you usually last minute about Christmas gifts like I am? Do you also always make a new plan each year to be better about it in the future?
Good thing that this year was the grand exception as I was invited to test the Kodak photo book software (which you can freely download here) which allowed me to assemble some of my favorite travel photos of trips from the past …
Let me ask you something: What will you give your mom/dad/grand parents/friends for Christmas this year? This is the question on almost everybody’s mind during the month of December and as every year it’s weighing heavy on me as well. Except that this year the solution came easy when I was offered to test-drive the new Kodak photobook software, which you can download and in a few easy steps create …
If you follow us on our varous social media channels and you’re the proud owner of a smart phone then I hope you’ve already had a chance to follow travelettes on Instagram as this is where we update you on all of our travels in real time. Some photos will be informative, others just plain beautiful showing off amazing landscapes, cool neighborhoods and interesting people. Instagram has also evolved into …
In an ideal case scenario, what would be the best thing a hotel can do for you? Make you feel at home? Relax you? Introduce you to amazing people? Provide you with a new and extraordinary experience? Lead you into a whole new world? Whatever your answer to that question there is always a place out there that exactly meets what it is you are looking for.
I’ve been lucky to …
When I told people that I was going to Iceland I could always rely on one thing – wide eyes. There is something about Europe’s most northern country that has people instantly fascinated. Iceland is unrivaled in its stunning variety of incredible landscapes, nowhere else in the world will you find this enticing mixture of wild shores, dramatic coastlines and impressive glaciers, no place else experience this enigmatic loneliness and …
