After a day and night in Reykjavik we made our way out into the countryside by car. As soon as you leave the city you quickly start to realise how sparsely populated Iceland is and how beautiful the country is.  The driving can be a little bit hair-raising as the weather changes so quickly and […]

We spent a day in Rejkavik which wasn’t long enough to see all of the amazing sights! We visited in March/April 2015 and hired a car for the length of our stay, it was a big expense but worth it to be independent, though you need to be thoroughly prepared for all weathers and road […]

For the final part of our Sri Lanka adventure we took the bus from the main road turning near Sigyria.  We caught the number 49 bus at about 6am which is the ‘fast’ bus from Trincomalee to Colombo.  It cost us 180 rupees per person (approx. 90p).  At the start the bus was absolutely rammed […]

During our time in the Sigiriya area we stayed at Sigiri Lake Paradise run by Amilia and her husband.  Of all the places we stayed in Sri Lanka this was easily our favorite, so we decided to stay for two nights and would happily have stayed longer if we hadn’t needed to return to Colombo.The […]

From Kandy we took a bus to Dambulla for 200 rupees which took just under 2 hours. It was a lovely journey past lots of spice gardens. At Dambulla we changed buses and took a local one towards Sigiriya, we disembarked the bus at Kimbissa and took a tuk tuk the last 2-3 km down […]