Getting your hair cut in foreign countries where you don’t know the local way to say “short on the sides, long on top” can be a pretty harrowing experience. Incorrect pronunciation or insufficiently illustrative hand-gestures could lead to a long night of searching for MC Hammer pants to go with your new Kid ‘n [...]
We’ve met some pretty hardcore, backpacker-Nazi types on the road who shun packaged-travel and all who would even dream of partaking. Apparently it’s a badge of honour to stay at a place costing 50¢ a night where you have to shit in a coffee tin in the corner.
Though we’re nowhere near that [...]
Well, three days into the all-inclusive experience and we’re well impressed, especially after the dismal analogue we lived through on our honeymoon in Tunisia. The people here have been uniformly friendly and as unmercenary as it gets, though the odd peso tip still is greatly appreciated and elicits the widest of smiles. 4 [...]
We’re off to Cuba in 4 hours – heading to the airport now to see what sorts of seats are still available. We’ve duly packed lots of goodies for the various Cubanos we’ll be coming across, hoping to make some friends. If you ever go to Cuba and you see some random guy [...]
It’s become a bit of a game: wake up in the morning, and see what the wackiest travel destination we can come up is:
Last week we got an email forward for a cheap package to Jamaica.
Jamaica was sold out, so we started looking at the Dominican Republic.
Found out the DR can be a [...]