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Why we go where we go. Here are some blogs about the Top 100 Countries.

Travel is a succession of small adventures. And they make life one big one.

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SPAIN. The Sagrada Família – Gaudi’s masterpiece

By GP | Aug 16, 2019

NOTHING PREPARED ME for the Sagrada Família. This famous church in the suburbs of Barcelona is the supreme achievement of…

By GP | Aug 9, 2019

VENICE IS THE most magical city on earth. The whole place is a museum. The only way to move around…

By GP | Aug 2, 2019

WHICH COUNTRIES ARE good to travel in and also offer value for money? We all like a bargain. The Top…

By GP | Jul 26, 2019

I’VE BEEN TO the USA over 70 times. Set foot in 43 states. When I first went there back in…

By GP | Oct 25, 2018

Inverness is monster town, they make a big thing of it Like the Kiwis with their Middle Earth and Orcs…

By GP | Oct 17, 2018

THEY SAY IT’s a small world. It isn’t. Planet Earth is a big place and full of infinite variety. There…

By GP | Oct 7, 2018

I HAD A SPARE day in Mumbai. I had been there a few times before, but I’d never spent any…

By GP | Sep 18, 2018

I WAS IN LONDON ALONE, for just 24 hours. A stopover between Barcelona and Edinburgh. What to do? It was…

By GP | Sep 2, 2018

ON THE WINDSWEPT Baltic coast, three hours north of Berlin, is the small town of Peenemünde. It is at the…