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Agiasos in autumn is my favourite time to visit this mountain village on our favourite Greek island, Lesvos. “Located on the slopes of Mount Olympus at an altitude of 475 meters and 27 kilometers from Mytilini, Agiasos has exceptionally rich vegetation, traditional architecture...

This 9 storey tower was Istanbul’s tallest building at the time it was built in 1348. It stands today just as tall and is the best place to see an amazzzzzing panoramic view of the Golden Horn and Bosporus as well as the Old City where the Topkapi palace and the Blue Mosque...

Aya Sofya or Hagia Sofia is a great architectural beauty and an important monument both for Byzantine and for Ottoman Empires. Once a church, later a mosque, and now a museum at the Turkish Republic, Hagia Sofia has always been the precious of its time. (Taken from the Haggia...

I have SO many amazing photographs I have taken on my travels. As in SO many. And so I decided that starting next week, I will give you a link to download it for your Desktop…a new destination every week! So every week you will have a fresh new destination to inspire you to...

We were eager to see these Roman ruins in Morocco…Volubilis is a partly excavated Berber and Roman city in north/central Morocco situated near Meknes between Fes and Rabat and commonly considered as the ancient capital of the kingdom of Mauretania. The ruins remained fairly...

DayTrips – we offer them through out Morocco and soon, the Philippines. In May, Lani & Noah, spent part of the honeymoon in Marrakech and did a Follow Your Heart DayTrip out of Marrakech to the Ourika Valley & Atlas Mountains. Here is Lani’s account of their...

I’m not sure why exactly but I have ALWAYS had the Pantheon on my list of places to visit. When I was in Rome for the first time for only 6 hours,  I was looking forward to see the Pantheon the most…it was like a first date sort of feeling in my stomach…I was...

I had heard of Panutsa, or peanut brittle, being made in the quaint little town of Taal, south of Manila in Batangas. We hopped onto a tricyle and and I asked the driver in my not-perfect-but-fairly-understandable Filipino, “Nasaan yung gawin sila ang panutsa?” or...

Istanbul. What an INCREDIBLE city. I have spent a considerable amount of time there, although it’s never enough. With 4 trips there in the last 4 years, I have many places still on my list to discover in Istanbul. But one place that never disappoints is the Galata District....

You can smell it several shops away…this yumminess of scents from fruity, to musks, to florals. Kind of like when you know there is a LUSH store in the mall ahead somewhere – you can smell it in advance! La Botica de la Abuela Aladdin doesn’t have a website, but it really...