We are Cath and Ian, an Aussie couple who love food, wine and travelling.
Over the last 5 years we have travelled together, starting with a few weeks at a time until 2017 when we are travelling for 12 months.
Well, it is that time of the year, where we review the year gone by and start to make plans for the upcoming festive season and new year. What a year 2017 has been for us, 12 months of travel and fun with a little bit of blogging thrown in for good...
For those who grew up in the Cold War era, the Berlin Wall was an immutable fact of life; the once great European city would always be divided both physically and ideologically by "The Wall" as it was known. For those of us not in Germany or the Eastern Soviet Bloc...
Riga, the capital city of The Republic of Latvia and the largest city in the Baltic States, is located on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Daugava river. It's historic centre is UNESCO World Heritage Listed and is renowned for it's well preserved Art Nouveau and...
Travelling to Riga Riga, the capital of Latvia was the second stop on our 3 week journey through the Baltic States. We travelled to Riga by bus from the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. We arrived at the bus depot in Tallinn with quite a bit of time to spare as we were...
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It is a quaint, small city with a large history. It's Old Town is one of Europe's most beautifully maintained medieval cities, gaining it a place on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Tallinn also listed as one...
Arriving in Tallinn It was a happy couple who kipped our first night in the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn. To be fair it would not have taken much to put us to sleep after the rather long and sleepless cruise from Stockholm. Throughout our travels we had erred on...
We cruised from Stockholm to Tallinn via Helsinki. The first leg of the journey from Stockholm to Helsinki was onboard MS Mariella, a ship in the Viking Line fleet. The second leg of the cruise from Helsinki to Tallinn, was on board MS Finlandia a ferry in the Eckerö...
It is a little over 3 months since our last 2017 review and we have been busy little travellers. We know you remember where we had been and what we had been up to but just in case you need to refresh your memory, you can check out our first 6 months of travels here....
We are excited to announce that Possess the World has been nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award, not once but twice. A huge thanks to a couple of our favourite bloggers, Vanessa at Wanders Miles and Trupti at Girls Glamour, who kindly nominated us. What is the...
Belgium is known as the Lowlands and it is flat, very flat but don't mistake that for boring, Martin McDonagh got it wrong, oh so wrong, when he described this part of the world, as the most boring... in Europe. Our trip to Belgium from Ireland via Amsterdam (yes...