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You have MOST probably seen Ait Ben Haddou, UNESCO World Heritage site, and you don’t even know it! Have you seen the movies Jewel of the Nile, The Last Temptation of Christ, Lawrence of Arabia or Gladiator? What about the series Games of Thrones? They have all used some...

My Travel Experience to Turkey – The Old Villages – was the first time I had the pleasure of having Suki as a Follow Your Heart guest. We even got to be roommates! She also started something that has now become a “thing” with FYH – shared iPhone/iPad...

I have always been fond of camels…from afar. They amazed me; going for miles and miles with no food and water in the hot desert, packing goods and such on its back and side. Amazing creature really. And their face. Oh, their sweet face. 🙂 So when we were on our Morocco...

We love shoes. They make an outfit. They are part of our personality. Yet…when we travel, we can’t bring ALL of them. And they also have to be versatile enough for many types of outfits. So what do I bring, the one who travels with just a carry-on? I’m glad you...

Vatsala was a friend of one of my dear guests from a previous Turkey Travel Experience. Her and her daughte rcame from where they live in China on our Old Villages Itinerary…they were so much fun to have along on the trip! “I just returned from the June 2015 trip to...

Italy…I don’t think I have met anyone who has not wanted to go to Italy. It evokes such wonderful emotions and I encourage everyone to visit her at least once! I had a great group of mostly photographers accompany me through Umbria & Tuscany and our time was...

The first time I visited Italy was in 2008. I visited again in 2010 and then last year, 2014. When I travel I tend to “adopt” certain things, foods, traditions from the cultures I love best. Indeed Italy was no different. I continue to make caprese for lunches and...

The best advertisement is people – their experiences, their reviews and their honest word-of-mouth recommendations. I want to share with you, my blog readers, some of these reviews of my guests, so you can get a flavor of our small group travels. —————————————————- I met...

I was excited to have Bob & Bev on our Turkey Travel Experience; both had been to Turkey and Bob actually spent several years in Turkey growing up as an expat teenager. We were both there in Istanbul a couple days before and they had asked me if I’d like to join them...

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...