The Adventures of Karen & Reuben as we travel the world…
While in Dublin, Piako visited the Guinness factory…as you do in Ireland!
We were excited to head back to London as we had really enjoyed our first couple of days there! On our first full day there, we headed out to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. We had received the excellent advice to go and see the guards preparing off to one side…
We stopped off for a brief visit to the small town of Farnborough, where Reuben’s friend Dilys and her brother John live. It was lovely to catch up with them – we enjoyed a walk by the canal, had dinner at a Nepali restaurant, were treated to a stay at the Ely hotel, visited the Farnborough…
In spite of a weather forecast predicting floods and storms, we decided to make a flying day trip to Wales with Ally and Charis. Neither of us had been to Wales before, so we were excited to see some of the country. We had time to see a couple of things before heading back to…
Piako visited the incredible Giant’s Causeway at the tip of Northern Ireland. He loved it!
From Bristol we did a day trip to the City of Bath. The whole city is a World Heritage Site and it is famous both for its ancient Roman Baths and for its stunning Georgian architecture. We arrived in the pouring rain, but we were grateful to get there at all as a lot of…
We flew back from Turkey into the rain and cold of England…upon arriving in Bristol we realised we had touched down in the middle of flooding! However, that didn’t stop us from having a great time with Reuben’s friends Ally and Paul and their daughter Charis. We spent a day exploring Bristol, and in amongst…
At the end of our time in Turkey we had three amazing days in Istanbul. After being in much less populated areas, Istanbul felt very crowded and bustling! We arrived at 5.45 am on a night bus from Bergama. As we were about to get onto the free shuttle from the bus station to Taksim…
Piako visited the chilly Scotland and watched a beautiful sunset in Glasgow!
Bergama is right next to the ancient city of Pergamon or Pergamum which is famous for its Acropolis set on top of a big hill. We set off from our hostel with the instructions that we could walk to take a cable car up the hill, and the walk would take us about 10 minutes….
Meandering Kiwis 