Category: travel series

  • Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 2

    Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 2

    Continuing with our road trip through the Swiss Alps (the start of the series is here) … Our selection of music to accompany us to the second mountain pass of the day is by Max Richter and Louisa Fuller. To get to Andermatt where we spent the first night of the road trip, we had

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  • Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 1

    Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 1

    Like millions of people in 2020, due to the pandemic, we worked from home, stayed away from crowded places, and stopped traveling. Before the arrival of winter and the possibility of another extended lockdown period, we decided to go on a short road trip within Switzerland in September. Driving your own car is safer than

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  • Road trip in Morocco #4 – from Ouarzazate to Essaouira

    Road trip in Morocco #4 – from Ouarzazate to Essaouira

    This is the last post of a series that documented our second road trip across Morocco that took us from the desert camp at Merzouga to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. It was a jaunt of about 1000 km made in 3 days.  You can follow our Westbound trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here

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  • Atlas Studios, Ouarzazate

    Atlas Studios, Ouarzazate

    Atlas Studios is a film studio located about 5 km (3 miles) west of the city of Ouarzazate, the second town where we spent a night on our Merzouga-to-Essaouira road trip across Morocco. You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and here. According to Wikipedia, measured by acreage, it is the

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