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Matka Canyon

15 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

  Matka Canyon is a Canyon 15 km west of Skopje in North Macedonia. It is a great place to visit if you are staying in Skopje. I paid for a taxi and also ask'd the taxi to wait it was extremely cheap less than €5. But, I heard of reports of taxi dri...

Tinker Tinkeress - inflatable sailing cat

15 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

  Tinker Tinkeress   I have wanted to get a Tinker Tramp or Tinker Traveller with the sailing rig for quite a long time. I do not even know that Tinker Inflatables even made a catamaran version of them.   I saw an auction on ebay for a new unused T...

Corvin Castle

14 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

  Corvin Castle also called Hunyadi castle is one of the largest castles in Europe it is in Transylvania in Romania. It was built in the 15th century on a former Roman camp. I have seen a lot of castles thought-out Europe and Corvin Castle is well...

Szeged - Hungary

13 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

  Szeged is in Southern Hungary it is close to the border with Romania and Serbia. If you are travelling to Romania or Serbia it is an ideal place to stop enroute. But, it is also worth visiting if you are in Hungary as the motorways are very good a...

Rapallo Italia

12 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

Rapallo Italia Rapallo is a port city on the Italian Ligurian Coast in Northern Italy. It is a small city with a population of about 30,000. It is a nice place to spend a weekend or even a day.  Rapallo was not that touristic when I went and most o...

My First Electric Bike

12 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

My First Electric Bike I had wanted to buy a electric bike for quite some time. But, finding one that suited my needs was not easy. They use to be very expensive but, they are much cheaper now.  My criteria was: 1. Small enough to fit in my car boot...

Castle Stalker, by Appin, Argyll, Scotland

12 Dec 2021 2 minute read 3 comments Hoosie

Castle Stalker is located on the West Coast of Scotland, by the village of Appin in Argyll, roughly mid-way between Oban and Fort William. It sits on its own little island a few hundred meters offshore in Loch Linnhe (a sea loch).  With views over th...

Tatsu (Leidschendam, NETHERLANDS)

12 Dec 2021 4 minute read 1 comment bengy

  One of the things that my oldest daughter really wanted to do before we left the Netherlands was to visit the new Westfield mall in Leidschendam... for my wife and I, that was like a nightmare in the asking. However, given that the Netherlands d...

Crossing The English Channel By Boat

11 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

Crossing The English Channel By Boat. I have sailed across the English Channel in private boats many times from various points. It is well worth the doing and can be completely stress free or extremely stressful it is unlikely that any crossing woul...

Niagara - Mighty AND Treacherous

11 Dec 2021 4 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara

You may have heard the news on Wednesday about a car somehow getting into Niagara's rivers, ending up near the edge of the American Falls, followed by a dramatic recovery effort by the US Coast Guard Station Niagara. After police used a drone for clo...