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A wonderful country the Vatican (its beak can hold more than its belly can)

9th February 201829th July 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

The final country on our trip was Vatican City. Or, more correctly, Vatican City State. At 0.44 square km and a population of 1000, it’s the smallest country in the world, by size and population.[…]

Rome, with a side order of Asterix, Obelix, and Monty Python

5th February 201830th July 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

I’m a fan of Monty Python. I can recite screeds of the show verbatim, which serves no useful purpose other than quoting it to people (which is no use in India, because no-one has any[…]

Pompeii and Positano, perfectly popular patches

21st January 201831st July 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

In keeping with my life theme of not preparing anything ever and doing absolutely no research into my destinations, Pompeii was not what I expected. What I expected was a few old buildings, what I[…]

The Italian triple threat: Sorrento, Capri and Naples

13th January 20181st August 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

Naples, the home of pizza I’ll admit it. I didn’t think much of Naples to begin with. It, like so many other cities, is dirty and higgledy-piggeldy. Up and down hills, old narrow lanes with[…]

Travel shaming is a thing, and I’m sick of it

4th January 20182nd August 2019 paulaksimpsonLife

I like to think I’m a tolerant person. I put up with all sorts of idiocy from all sorts of muppets and most of the time, I’m fairly accepting of others and their differences (because,[…]

Florence, Where I Ate a Lot of Pasta and Hung Out With Da Vinci

30th December 20172nd August 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

Ticking Italy Off The Bucket List I’ve always had Florence, Italy somewhere near the top of my bucket list. Since I was little girl, I’ve loved pizza and pasta (obsessively so) and in those games[…]

Lisbon; Within my soul I made my towers high; a stronger city than was there before

23rd December 20175th August 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

Reza and I have a friend in Portugal, so an eight hour stopover sounded like a great excuse for a lunch with him. From the airport, we took an Uber to Belém, the south-west corner[…]

What do Napoleon, Christopher Columbus, and Charles V have in common? Alhambra.

9th December 20177th August 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

Alhambra; The Red Castle Alhambra al-qala’a al-hamra . I don’t really have words to describe how incredible this place is, but between the two of us, we did take about 450 photos in the four hours we[…]

Seville, where I explore ancient buildings, eat churros, and admire beautiful architecture

1st December 20178th August 2019 paulaksimpsonTravel

We took a train south from Barcelona (trains are A+, by the way) and then took a cab to our AirBNB. Literally the second I got out of the car, I had that feeling you[…]

Barcelona, the architects playground

27th November 201713th August 2019 paulaksimpsonUncategorized

This is so challenging to write because Barcelona was so amazing to visit and I have a million photos. I could happily live there and have bocadillos for breakfast every day, walking the city streets that[…]

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A wonderful country the Vatican (its beak can hold more than its belly can)

Rome, with a side order of Asterix, Obelix, and Monty Python

Pompeii and Positano, perfectly popular patches

The Italian triple threat: Sorrento, Capri and Naples

Travel shaming is a thing, and I’m sick of it

Florence, Where I Ate a Lot of Pasta and Hung Out With Da Vinci

Lisbon; Within my soul I made my towers high; a stronger city than was there before

What do Napoleon, Christopher Columbus, and Charles V have in common? Alhambra.

Seville, where I explore ancient buildings, eat churros, and admire beautiful architecture

Barcelona, the architects playground