That Traveling Couple

Moments Of Unexpected Awesome

Sometimes when you’re traveling you have these moments.

You get to a place or you see a sight, or you have an experience that wasn’t at all what you had come for, planned for, or hoped for, and yet while unexpected is completely memorable and delightful in a weird and [...]

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Wedges, Wine and Waiting – The GC Debacle

9 hours locked in the Gold Coast departure lounge, 45 minutes in the food line, middle aged women attempting to smoke cigarettes in the ladies bathroom and getting intoxicated with strangers courtesy of $10 Air Asia vouchers. This was how we spent the 29th December 2009…

After a whirlwind 3 [...]

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Touristing in LA? A Couple of Need To Know’s

I guess it actually falls under 1 main “need to know” really.

If you’re visiting LA for the first time as a tourist, you need to know that it’s one hell of a big place! The city of angels is spread out over an enormous area of land, connected by [...]

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Bucerias – First Impressions

Taking the local bus about 45 minutes north up the coast from Puerto Vallarta, you arrive at the quaint beachside town of Bucerias in the state of Nayarit.
Yet less ravaged by the touristy sprawl, Bucerias stands out amongst the beachside towns on this stretch of Mexico’s west coast for a number of reasons.
Firstly you quickly [...]

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Our Oahu Helicopter Adventure

There were alot of things about riding in a helicopter that I didn’t expect.
It’d been on my to do list for so long…
I’d had one attempt – a helicopter tour through the Grand Canyon – foiled due to bad weather; another attempt over a volcano in New Zealand’s Rotorua dissipated due to only being able [...]

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Tips For Riding The Paris Metro

Fresh back from our brief jaunt in Paris, I thought I’d write a post with a few tips on getting around Paris on the subway (metro). If you can do so, and avoid using cabs and walking TOO far, you can save alot of money and get alot more time for sight seeing while you’re [...]

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The New Jawad Paris: Our Review

Elysia and I are freaks when it comes to Indian food.
We eat Indian in every country we visit.
We love it.
That being the case, I consider myself a connoisseur.
I have a hyper sensitivity to the combination of spice and flavor in my curry, an obsession with the tenderness of my, in the best cases real Tandoor [...]

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