Sailing Yacht Coco
The excellent adventures of Alex & Jac
Gabby is home for a visit. Wicked. We had her shipped from the UK back to New Zealand late last year and she arrived in Auckland ready for summer. Getting her...
It’s kinda funny. We travel the world hunting down great adventures, amazing places and new experiences. Sometimes we forget the backyard, and what we have here in our little country that...
It’s time to start planning again. Watched a Rick Stein show on Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and Northern Greece. It looks good. Great people, food looks spectacular; it smells like an adventure...
We leave you with a smile on our faces Scotland. Thank you for having us. We discovered some beautiful landscapes, some great people and a few items ticked off the bucket...
Five months ago we had our best idea ever. Get a Landrover Defender 110 expedition truck built and knock off some classic adventures over the next couple of years. Phase one...
Islay, heaven on earth for whiskey aficionados. Home to a handful of the worlds most famous distilleries. The smell of peat smoke hangs in the air as they craft some of...
Good grief, after a 10 day journey with a flight from London to Reykjavik, an 800km drive up to Seydisfjordur to catch the ferry to Demark, 3 days on the ferry...
Iceland prides itself on key tourist attractions that bring over a million visitors to the island every summer. Sure there are the glaciers, the amazing sceanery etc etc, but they also...
We leave you with great sadness Sicily. We loved your rustic Italian style, your food; mamma mia – the seafood (when Jeasus did that cool shit with the fish, I’m sure...
After 3 weeks in Iceland and nearly 7000km of driving, we’ve left Gabby at the airport in Keflavik (hope she’ll be ok!) and we are flying to Sicily for 10 days...
Vatnajökull; the largest ice field in Europe covering an area of 8,400 square km with an average ice thickness of more than 3,000 feet. If it melted, half the world would...
If I was ever going to make a movie about aliens, hobbits or any elfin like creature, the south central highlands of Iceland would be my set. It’s totally stunning. Volcanic,...
Reykjavík, the only real city in Iceland; home to two thirds of the population. It’s an eclectic mix of old and new reflecting the rapid growth in tourism that the country...
After leaving the stunning central highlands and a swim in an active volcanic crater(!), heading to some of the more remote areas in the northern fjords bought a new landscape with...
Yep, it’s confirmed. They do actually shoot reindeer in Iceland. Approx 6,000 total population and they nail around 1300 of them every year (bring on the Blitzen Burger). I met a...
Who would have thought. Second night in Iceland and we get treated to the Northern Lights. What an experience. They move and wander across the sky like celestial snakes. We didn’t...
This place is beautiful. Raw, dramatic, moody landscape. I can’t imagine how hard life is here. Especially in the winter! It was totally worth the 4:30am start to see such an...
We made the boat! It’s great to be here after all the planning and organisation; plus a fair bit of travel. One day in, half way to the Faroe Islands, just...
4 days in London, a trip to Maidenhead to inspect and sign over the Land Rover (Gabriella!), shopping forced upon us by the kids (relief medication applied in local pubs), a...
I’m in love with another woman… Now that is a cool Land Rover! Two weeks to go until collection date. The list of things to get done seems to be getting...
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