Updated for 2018! Here’s everything you need to know about Portugal’s toll roads from the new, unmanned Electronic Tolls to the old Via Verde system. Make sure you read this if you’re planning a trip to Portugal in the near future and plan on driving your own vehicle or renting a car while you’re there.
Once in a while we get a chance to spend some time in a hotel that offers something really special.
You know the hotels I mean.
The hotels with the huge lobbies gleaming with polished wood, where you just might run into someone famous sitting casually in an overstuffed chair.
Hotels with room service wheeled up to your room and served with a red rose and a white tablecloth.
Hotels where the bellboy is over 60 years old, and loves to tell stories about the time …
What to do and see in the small town of Bugibba, Malta. From beaches and bars to temples and squares, turns out there’s more to this small seaside town than you might expect.
With only an afternoon to check out the sights and sounds in Istanbul’s old city, we tell you how to see the main highlights for yourself in under 6 hours.
Still feeling the effects of a crazy travel week riding camels in Morocco, sleeping in Bedouin tent villages in the Sahara Desert and hanging out in the chaotic sprawling urban jungle called the Medina of Marrakech, Micki and I were on the mend in Seville and looking for our next family adventure.
When we pulled up a map of the area, it became clear that there was one last place we needed to check out before we left this area of Spain behind us. Only 2 hours south was an iconic landmark that I had heard about since childhood and never really thought I’d ever see it in person. Gibraltar was calling and that meant two things, road trip and monkees!
It’s been a long road these last six months.
In that time we’ve been to ten countries and set foot on four continents.
We’ve logged over 28,377 kilometers (or 17,632 miles for our American friends), as the crow flies.
Now that we’re back in Canada for the summer, it’s time to get my Canadian on…
Jordan, four years old and all of 32 pounds, makes a beeline for a sitting camel and bounds on top without a moments hesitation.
I exchange a tentative glance with Charles, debating how much I should worry about our little girl’s sudden bond with a 1,000 pound animal. Mohammad, the camel’s handler is completely unfazed by Jordan’s enthusiasm, though I’m fairly sure that small girls with wild golden ringlets don’t fling themselves on top of his camels every day…
Getting paid to travel, teach and inspire is not something you see on a lot of job advertisements, but teaching English abroad is a fairly special career path. If you want to see the world, do something to shake up your life and have a great time doing it, teaching English abroad could be the answer. Take a look at these top ten tips of places to go…