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A 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 history nerd travelling The New World. ¿What could possibly go wrong? Join me on my way to The fabled lands of Ar Wladfa 🇦🇷 in 🇨🇴

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  • Back Where it Began

    Hola and prynhawn dda from (actually for once!) Sunny Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿! Since the last blog post I have been home for a few days but I couldn’t leave the blog with a picture of the motorway. I also felt we couldn’t truly say this adventure was over until I was right back where this trip…

  • The Road Trip Home: Saint Omer and Morval.

    Bonjour tout le monde! Today is the final full day on the road, last stop in France before going through the channel tunnel and heading back to Wales. We were up a little hungover but by about 10:30 we were back on the road. Once again the drive up was quite uneventful being just dry…

  • The Road Trip Home: Langres

    Bonjour! After our dramas in Tain l’ Hermitage with the phone it was the next day and time once again to hit the road north. This time we would be staying in Central France in a medieval town called Langres (pronounced “longe”)  The drive up was pretty uneventful and the geography of this leg was…

  • A trip to Inland Provence

    Bonjour tout! Today we did a little trip into the interior of Provence and this is a short blog to cover this one off. So we were up reasonably early and set off about 9.30 inland. Heading inland this place is a bit wine growing region and it’s vineyards everywhere. Clive tells me this region…

  • A Day Trip to Marseille

    Bonjour tout le monde if be saying it right!! Today’s installment is all about Marseille and the day trip over there. So for today it was an early start compared to the last few days, I was up for 0730 and all showered to be out the door at 0810 for our 0830 train into…

  • Exploring Hyères

    Bonjour tout le monde! For todays blog we do a little exploring in beautiful Hyères (E’re as it be pronounced).  So this is quite a cute little town that has a distinct medieval feel to it and in some parts did remind me of Valparaíso in it’s back streets but there isn’t much street art…

  • Act 8 – Homecoming Ft. The bonus Tour de France 🇫🇷

    Hola and Bonjour from Beautiful Provence in the south of France! We’ve returned to The Old World but we’re not quite finished yet.  Why France though? Well there was always going to be some sort of return Europe leg on this trip but I was unsure how it would have worked out. Back in April…

  • El Cono Sur Recap and Post mortem

    Watch the recap video on Instagram. Read on for blog and summary on each place visited Hola todos! As my time in South America comes to an end it’s time for the post mortem recap of Act 7 – El Cono Sur. This will be the last post mortem of this blog though we still…

  • The Last Week in South America: a summary on Buenos Aires

    Hola todos! As I write this I am preparing for the flight to leave Argentina. As this is chapter comes to an end like all others there will be a post mortem blog on the Cono sur which will come later but for this one it is worth a post to sum up our second…

  • Return to Buenos Aires – The Countdown back to Reality

    So as I mentioned on the previous blog it was quite the fun one getting back to Buenos Aires. After our sendoff sesh with Ed Sheeran I woke at 10 am realising I needed to get my ass in gear and get over to the bus station. I’m soon there get checked in and have…