Yep, it’s that time of year again. Pardon me while I go through the motions again, apologising for my lack of blogging of late. I’ve been working out in the Balkans, guiding groups of people through Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania and Montenegro. These past five weeks have been challenging, to [...]
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View from the Office Days 21-30
Over the last ten days, I’ve been travelling at a rate of knots. I finished up my training through Eastern and Central Europe, and started work again in more familiar territory. One thing’s for sure though; Slovenia absolutely blew me away. I’ll be writing more about the country later, but I spent a day exploring [...]
The question of Qatar
Paul and I got a bit of a taste of Qatar on the way over to Southeast Asia; Doha Airport. We spent eight hours in a glorified shed, cramped up with thousands of other laid-over passengers from around the world and forced to share one coffee shop, one cafeteria and a greasy burger joint. We’d [...]
View from the Office Days 11-20
So I’m on the road again. Quite a bit actually; in the last ten days I’ve found myself in Prague, Split and plenty of places in between. I’ve been on a tour guiding training trip, which is basically a fortnight of getting to know destinations, activities and food in all the new places I’ve been [...]
The old Zeeland
This past weekend was my last weekend in Dordrecht for a few months; on Thursday I’m off to Prague and will be tour guiding throughout the summer, mainly in Eastern Europe. It was almost as if Mother Nature had heard my pleas, as the weekend was beautiful and sunny. At first, I didn’t know how [...]
And the Belgians gave us some silver balls
Just like we weren’t planning on visiting Luxembourg, we weren’t counting on going to Brussels, either. But as we were doing one of those go-with-the-flow, ‘let’s just turn off anywhere that looks interesting’ weekend trips, Paul thought I might like to see the Atomium. If you’ve met Paul before, you might be surprised that he’d [...]
153 minutes in Luxembourg
We weren’t planning to go to Luxembourg that weekend. It just kind of turned out that way. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Paul and I visiting Dinant in Belgium. Dinant was truly lovely, what with its pretty buildings, river, cliff and fortress all clamoring for attention. We wandered around, forgetting about the freezing temperatures [...]
Meanwhile, back in Vietnam…
I know I’ve been talking about Vietnam for ages now. What I’m about to rabbit on about today actually occurred more than two months ago; our visit to the Cu Chi Tunnels, just outside of Ho Chi Minh City. But I promise, this is the last thing I’ll post about Vietnam. Well, at least until we [...]
View from the Office Days 1-10
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been back to work in March. I’ve already posted a bit on the craziness of Las Fallas in Valencia, and yesterday I got back from guiding an Easter tour of Paris. I’m exhausted already and the proper summer season is still a month away. To make up for my [...]
The traditions of Las Fallas
I have a little bit of a confession to make. It’s not going to sit well alongside all of my feminist rants, but I really like watching the Miss Universe pageant. I know, I know, it’s really not cool to admit this. I hate the idea of the pageant yet it’s like looking at the sun; [...]
About me
I'm Caitlyn, a twenty-something Australian living in the Netherlands. Six years ago I crammed my life into a backpack affectionately called 'the Beast' and hit the road, anxious to see all the world's Olympic sites. Needless to say, I got a bit distracted along the way. Today I'm a tour guide in Europe, and blog about what I love; travel, sport and food.
I’m in: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
