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Countries Europe Kids Latvia Travel

After Estonia we're going to….

A. Hungary B. Belgium C. Greece D. All of the above. Thanks to trustedhousesitters.com we have a housesit assignment with a Briard dog called Muze in….. Belgium! We had talked about Greece, we were about to pull the trigger on Hungary, but in a random “How about Belgium?” moment, I looked up housesitting assignments and […]

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Countries Europe New Zealand Travel

Shall we talk prices?

I bet you want to know how much we’ve paid on airline tickets and insurance and accommodation right? You know the most frustratingly expensive item isn’t the big ticket stuff, it’s the annoying necessitates – plastic bins! Four 80lt bins from Bunnings – $107. Then I go to The Warehouse a week later and there […]

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Countries Europe Travel Visa

On the upside

So Russia may be off the books, but on the upside, I learned more about Schengen and Bilateral countries when talking to Peter my ‘visa guy’. His first question to me was “So why are you doing it this way? Logically you’d do Western Europe first, in fact, with a New Zealand passport you can […]

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Countries Europe Russia Travel

So close, and yet so far away

Russia is right thereā€¦ just there, over the line and yet we can’t go, all because of timing. I’m more than a little annoyed, but what can you do? St Petersburg is 4.5 hours away from Tallin, Estonia (368.8 km) but because of the way we chose to travel it means we can’t get there. […]

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Countries Europe New Zealand Travel

When we're back

“What are you going to do when you get back?” HaHaHa, that’s a joke question right?! I can barely keep the week straight, let alone to plan that far in advance. I know people are anxious to understand our plans, but we don’t know. All we know so far is that we move out of […]