Personal Takes
Why We Can’t Stop Thinking About Japan

Why We Can’t Stop Thinking About Japan

We were standing waiting to cross the road and the speaker above the crossing made a noise like a video game. A proper pew-pew-pew, like something out of an arcade from 1991. We were standing at the lights on our first morning in Tokyo, a little jet-lagged and...

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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Our Experience Doing The 2-Day Tour

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Our Experience Doing The 2-Day Tour

This time last week we were exploring one of the most toxic places in the world. We climbed to the top of an abandoned apartment block that hasn’t been lived in since April 1986. We walked on soil that has been infiltrated with deadly radioactive particles. We went to...

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Chernobyl Photo Collection

Chernobyl Photo Collection

A quick preface:  I didn’t have a tripod with me for the 2 days in Chernobyl and as a result, the image quality of a lot of the photos from inside buildings aren’t as crisp as I would have liked.   I had to crank up the ISO dramatically or shoot with a very fast...

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Experience the Magic of Wadi Rum

Experience the Magic of Wadi Rum

There are seemingly countless beautiful, interesting, and unique destinations to visit on this planet and we're slowly trying to tick as many of them as possible off our list. Only a very small number of them, however, retain that powerful sense of awe, the genuine...

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Getting Familiar With Jordan! 3 Days In Amman

Getting Familiar With Jordan! 3 Days In Amman

Visiting Jordan has been on our bucket list for quite some time. This part of the world always fascinated us and we knew that Jordan would be the perfect first stop on a trip to the Middle East. Back in December of last year, we started chatting about where we'd like...

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Invisalign Update: 2 Years Of Wearing Braces

Invisalign Update: 2 Years Of Wearing Braces

Scientists and spiritual teachers agree that the simple act of smiling can transform you and the world around you. From regulating your heartbeat and lifting your mood to reducing your stress levels, improving your self-confidence and your relationships, smiling...

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What We’ve Been Up To For the Past Two Years

What We’ve Been Up To For the Past Two Years

Hello, friends. It’s been a while! In fact, it’s been longer than just a while. It’s been almost 2 years since we were regularly posting here on the blog. 2 YEARS! We’ve been the worst ‘travel bloggers’ as of late as we’ve been firmly out of travel mode and in full-on...

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Why we stopped blogging (and haven’t regretted it).

Why we stopped blogging (and haven’t regretted it).

Hey readers, it’s been a while! We’ve been super quiet on the blog lately – so much so that many of you have emailed and messaged us asking are we alright and why we’ve not been posting updates (thanks for your concern btw!) so we figured it was time to do a quick...

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