Author: adriftingthought
-
Best things we ate out in Sicily
We started our year of travel with 3 and a half weeks in Sicily. The dolce vita feeling was strong as we indulged ourselves in countless gelatos (for C) and sorbets (for lactose intolerant me) and a drink at many a piazza. A week or so in we had to take a good hard look…
-
Walking around Imlil / a sheep saga
Imlil is known as the base for trekking to Mount Toukbal. Of course we were not attempting the summit ourselves, but instead looking to experience an accessible bit of the Atlas mountains (only around 90 mins from Marrakesh) in a trip otherwise 90% focussed on surfing. One walk in particular stands out in my memories……
-
Guide for eating in Sicily as a lactose intolerant person and IBS sufferer.
A non-whimsical and purely practical post coming up… I love to travel and eat, but I am that person who is constantly trying to balance this with a notoriously fickle stomach. Sicily presented a fun challenge to my quest to eat as much as possible, namely in the prevalence of dairy and/ or fried food.…
-
Jaffna Temples Tour
This was one of the most beautiful few hours of sightseeing I have enjoyed – I went on a temples tour which meanders through the countryside around Jaffna, includes a stop off at Keerimalai spring and loops back round via the islands connected to the city by a causeway. This was organized by D’Villa Guest…
-
Visiting Jaffna as a solo traveller
I had wanted to visit Jaffna for several years and researched it a fair bit for previous visits to Sri Lanka. However, fitting a visit into a 2 weeks holiday when you really want to be at the other end of the island surfing, defeated all my best planning endeavours. Now, armed with 2 months…
-
Thoughts on being over half way to home from Sri Lanka, and the start of a year of travelling
Oddly, my brain is strangely thought free. After years of obsessively thinking about leaving London and how that would feel, now that part of my brain feels strangely fudgey. It would have been normal for me to instead have focussed that anxious energy into something else, say planning that next year of travel, but I…
-
Thoughts on 2 weeks in Sri Lanka (with 6 more to go)
After quite literally, years, of dreaming of returning to Sri Lanka and somehow working from here, I have to my great surprise managed to make it happen. Slightly odd then, that instead of ecstatic emotional platitudes coming to mind as I sit down to write, my first thought is, why is my shoulder hurting so…
-
Assos Day Trip – Kefalonia
You know when you plan an excursion and then after you are like wow that really was an excellent use of an afternoon, and you have zero doubts that maybe lazing by the water would have been just as good… well this was one of those days. To start with, we caught a taxi from…
-
Fiskardo Guide
It’s hard to describe Fiskardo as anything other than extremely pleasant. It’s a tiny village alongside a glittering blue channel of water, dotted with beautiful venetian style colourful houses. Probably due to this charming set up, it’s extremely touristy. Walking along the waterfront, you pretty much cannot see the water due to the immaculately parked…
-
Kathara Monastery – Ithaca
Kathara monastery is situated at the highest point of Ithaca. The winding scooter ride that had us circling the crags of the island as we slowly rose up and up here was rewarding enough, that initially once we alighted it felt like the destination was just the cherry on top. However just a few steps…
a drifting thought 