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Table Mountain, the most famous of the mountains of the Cape Peninsula, endless white beaches enclose Cape Town, the most beautiful city of the world.

Weekend Getaways Cape Town

Cape Town is our favourite town by far because it lies in the most dramatic scenery with table mountain as its world-known icon surrounded by the sea. Spectacular shoreline and mountains crisscrossed by walking trails through the Table Mountain National Park offer all that outdoor lovers aim for. Looking for romantic weekend getaways, Cape Town […]

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Car Rental Hacks – How You Save Car Rental

Car rental experiences during our travels taught us a lot. Knowing a bit about car rental pricing strategy, it’s feasible to find car rental hacks for US$ 5/day by booking early – or 10 US$/day in peak season. Read my suggestions how you save on car rental, avoid high-cost excess insurance and beat hidden nasties. Learn how you save rental massively without the risk of high excess costs! 

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Amsterdam Flower Festival, Tulip Fields Holland, Tulip Fields Netherlands

Amsterdam Flower Festival – Tulip Fields Netherlands

Well, this year it should finally work out – Corona or not!  If you have set yourself the goal of finally seeing the Amsterdam Flower Festival 2022 and the tulip fields Netherlands yourself, you must reserve a few days in spring for a trip to the most beautiful tulip garden Amsterdam: Keukenhof!

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Seychelles Islands, is it paradise? How is snorkeling and diving really, the infrastructure, costs of living and do they care for environment and wildlife? #seychelles #seychellestourism #islands

Seychelles Islands – The Pros And Cons Of Alleged Paradise

Seychelles Islands, is it paradise? How is snorkeling and diving really, the infrastructure, costs of living and do they care for environment and wildlife?

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South of France 7 days itinerary

South Of France Itinerary – 7 Days

With its shining coast and rural provencal heart, Mediterranean southern France has an immortal appeal. On our South of France itinerary – 7 days, you’ll drive through some of the best villages in Provence, to fiercely unique scenes: picturesque coastline, rugged hinterland and rural valleys. Furthermore, there are plentiful enchanting towns to explore.

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Section 214b Visa Rejection

Section 214b Visa Rejection – No US Tourist Visa For Us?!

„You are ineligible to get the visa. Your visa is denied,” the consular officer at the US Embassy told us with a straight face and handed over an excerpt of INA Section 214b visa rejection paper. What seemed to be a formality to us – to get a US Visa for visiting the USA, turned […]

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Traveling is great and exhausting at once, even more if traveling around the world at a slow pace nonstop as we do now for four years. Settle down or not?

Life In South Africa For Retirement

For four years we are traveling continuously around the world at a slow pace.
Sometimes the travel blues gets us and we miss a home.
Then the even bigger challenge awaits us:
In which country could we live happily?

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Graaff-Reinet Valley Of Desolation Camdeboo National Park

Graaff-Reinet Valley Of Desolation – Camdeboo National Park

We camped in the “Green Valley” in the “Great Thirst Land” or if used the actually better known terms in the original language Khoi-khoi of the Bushmen, it is “Camdeboo” in the “Karoo”.
Best known is the Valley Of Desolation within the Camdeboo National Park.
The National Park encircles entirely the Old Cape Dutch town of Graaf-Reinet.

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Urlaub im Winter - Ferienwohnung Davos

Davos Switzerland In The Winter With Dog

Switzerland in the winter offers guaranteed snow. Davos is an excellent choice for a Switzerland winter holiday with dog, because of its many winter hiking and sledding trails. and especially important for us: we immediately found a dog-friendly holiday apartment.

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Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Kalahari Gemsbok National Park) - Best Game Park in South Africa - Botswana for lion and cheetah - sightings and birding.

Kalahari National Park South Africa

Best place to visit for Cheetah and Lion sightings is the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park. A game park full of wildlife in the semi-desert of South Africa and Botswana (formerly called Kalahari Gemsbok National Park), souring hot and unforgivably harsh.

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