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What is it with going to Japan? One of my mates is there at the moment, another is going over there in about a month? I liked the idea of head over there myself to see a country so different to ones own, but now after all you lot have been there all I can think of is this.
FalseFlagg K
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****ing lucky you. Ill be putting up with my family and cleaning up after my mother for Christmas while wishing I was dead. **** YOU *****ERG!!!!!
I just got back from Mozambique again. It's a very nice place. Beautiful beaches and such good food. The seafood was great. You picked fresh seafood they just caught next to the beach and they cleaned it for you. Then I carried it to a restaurant area and picked a chef out of 100s to cook it. I had this great 7 pound lobster.
In October, we took our kids to Peru. We flew into Lima initially but immediately took a domestic flight to Cusco. Since we were coming from Utah, we figured it’d be best to go straight there rather than adjusting to near sea level before going to Machu Picchu. We spent a couple nights in Cusco and rented a van and driver for the day that took us all around the Sacred Valley and it was only about $100. I think what I was most surprised by was it being more of a desert landscape, kind of like Utah mountains, but when we then took the train to Aguascalientes, you hit a point where it then becomes jungle as it’s the start of the Amazon. The view within Aguascalientes (the town at the base of Machu Picchu) is really incredible with really high peaks of lush mountains and you have the river running through town. We had a perfect weather day at Machu Picchu and the view even of the surroundings is amazing.
We then flew back to Lima and stayed in an apartment right on the coast. The landscape is interesting as Lima sits on a cliff that drops off to the ocean and looks fairly interesting. It was also crazy how deep into the tropics you are and how cold (relatively) Lima is. We mostly just hung out in the Miraflores district and didn’t do a whole lot. We were higher up in our apartment. I can’t remember what floor, but you took an elevator that went directly to the apartment. There was a stairwell but it was only accessible from the outside, so you couldn’t access it from the apartment. That made me paranoid, not just from a perspective of safety, but because if there’s any elevator problem, you’re stuck up there and can’t get down. The front desk said there wasn’t any number that I could call them on in the event the elevator didn’t work.
A week ago, my wife and I got back from Spain. We purchase everything on a Delta Amex so we had miles and saw a really good deal that we had plenty of miles for. We flew in to Barcelona and spent two days there. Overall, I didn’t feel like there was a ton to do in Barcelona (relatively), but it was the right amount of time. We took the high speed train to Madrid and spent a day there. The cheesecake is the best I’ve ever had. We then took another train down to Seville, which was the best city on the trip. We spent two days there then rented a car and drove down to Malaga and up the coast to Granada. We saw the Alhambra and ate dinner at a Moroccan restaurant that may have been the best meal I’ve ever eaten. The Alhambra was the last holdout of the Moops before being conquered by the Spaniards. We then flew back to Barcelona to return home.
Alhambra from the bottom.
Underneath the Alcazar.
Plaza De España. This doubled for Naboo in one of the Star Wars prequels.
Barcelona.
We then flew back to Lima and stayed in an apartment right on the coast. The landscape is interesting as Lima sits on a cliff that drops off to the ocean and looks fairly interesting. It was also crazy how deep into the tropics you are and how cold (relatively) Lima is. We mostly just hung out in the Miraflores district and didn’t do a whole lot. We were higher up in our apartment. I can’t remember what floor, but you took an elevator that went directly to the apartment. There was a stairwell but it was only accessible from the outside, so you couldn’t access it from the apartment. That made me paranoid, not just from a perspective of safety, but because if there’s any elevator problem, you’re stuck up there and can’t get down. The front desk said there wasn’t any number that I could call them on in the event the elevator didn’t work.
A week ago, my wife and I got back from Spain. We purchase everything on a Delta Amex so we had miles and saw a really good deal that we had plenty of miles for. We flew in to Barcelona and spent two days there. Overall, I didn’t feel like there was a ton to do in Barcelona (relatively), but it was the right amount of time. We took the high speed train to Madrid and spent a day there. The cheesecake is the best I’ve ever had. We then took another train down to Seville, which was the best city on the trip. We spent two days there then rented a car and drove down to Malaga and up the coast to Granada. We saw the Alhambra and ate dinner at a Moroccan restaurant that may have been the best meal I’ve ever eaten. The Alhambra was the last holdout of the Moops before being conquered by the Spaniards. We then flew back to Barcelona to return home.
Alhambra from the bottom.
Underneath the Alcazar.
Plaza De España. This doubled for Naboo in one of the Star Wars prequels.
Barcelona.
Thanks for sharing!
Machu Pichu is on my wife's bucket list, so we're actually starting to plan a trip there. How did your kids do?
They did great. We’ve always wanted to go but figured it’d be farther into the future because we’d have to go without kids and there were so many other places we wanted to see first. Anyway, we’re opportunists as far as when deals come up so that oftentimes dictates where we go. My wife initially was a no but we looked more into it and just went ahead on it. Aside from us being the only people up there with kids, it actually went really well. Our guide was great and we met him randomly the day before on the train there. We probably would have seen slightly more without the kids but they held up great. I would’ve liked to have done the stairs of death up to Hyuanu Picchu (spelling?) but will definitely do that if we were to ever go back.
FalseFlagg K
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Great pics mate, thanks for sharing