Solo travel, hiking and travel photo
Drake Bay, a small town on a hill by the beach in the Osa peninsula. It’s a very calm place and not touristy at all. There aren’t many souvenir shops and it’s not crowded by tourists. Here are some tourists though, people are coming to …
Puerto Jiménez is a very small town in the Osa Peninsula, and most of the people visiting do it for tours to Corcovado national park. That’s why I decided to go there too. Initially I tried to book a tour that started in Puerto Jiménez, …
There are many places in Porto that offers a view over the city. Some of them have an entrance fee, but most of the views you get from a mirador. Here are some of the most popular places. Clérigos Tower The Clérigos tower is one …
This is Vernazza, the second town from the west of the five towns that makes Cinque Terre. This is the town I was staying in on my visit to Cinque Terre. After being in the inland of Italy for almost two weeks it was really nice …
When I was in San Marino I took some photographs with my small gorillapod and long shutter speeds. It had been some years since I last had done it, but it was really fun, and I really liked the outcome. So when I got to …
Who else loves great views? When I’m in a new city I always try to get inside towers or hills to get a view over the city. In Florence there are many places to visit to get beautiful views over the city and surroundings. Fort …
After 2 nights in San Marino my trip continued to Florence. Here I stayed at an Airbnb just next to Maria Novella train station. I thought the location was good, I always like to be near the train station and the centre at the same …
Well okey, I admit it, when I realized San Marino was quite near the other places I was going to visit on my trip in Italy, I saw my chance to check another country of the list, it would be my 34th country. I didn’t …
During my trip to Málaga I did a day trip to Granada. Granada is a beautiful city with a lot of history around 1,5 hour away from Málaga by bus. It’s mostly famous for the Alhambra, a 1000 year old palace located on a hill …
My first day trip from Málaga was to Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory with 30 000 inhabitants. As I said in the previous post Gibraltar was one of the main reasons I actually went to Málaga. It took 3 hours with the bus …
The first morning in Málaga I went to the Mercado Central Atarazanas. This is a big food market, which happened to be just outside my apartment, where they sell fresh fruit, meat, fish, shellfish and spices. They had all kinds of fresh fruit and it …
So, I recently got home from my second solo trip. The trip was to Málaga in southern Spain. I had some time of from work so I decided to go somewhere warm to relax. I only knew I wanted to go somewhere warm, but since …