Category: Year In Review

2024 – My Travel Year In Review

My 2024 Travel and Blogging Year In Review This post has become an annual tradition for me, and I love doing it as a personal record of my travels for the year. 2023 marked 10 years of blogging for me and I wrote about the highlights from my decade in blogging here. 2024 was a […]

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Highlights from 10 years of travel blogging

Highlights from 10 years of travel blogging Reflecting on a decade of travel blogging is like revisiting a meticulously curated scrapbook filled with memories, lessons, and adventures. Over the years, the journey of sharing experiences, tips, and insights has not only enriched my life but also taught me invaluable lessons that extend far beyond the […]

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My 2023 Travel and Blogging Year In Review

My 2023 Travel and Blogging Year In Review 2023 was a very busy year for me in terms of family commitments so I didn’t get to travel as much as I would have liked. However, this year marks 10 years since I started my blog in 2013, so I had to commemorate it in some […]

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2022 Travel Year in Review

2022 Travel Year in Review I can’t believe that I am already writing about my 2022 year in travel. It seems like just yesterday, that I was writing about 2021. This post has become an annual tradition for me and I love doing it as a personal record of my travels for the year. Thankfully, […]

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My 2021 Travel Year in Review

My 2021 Travel Year in Review 2021 was like an extension of 2020 although we did get more opportunities to travel locally. The year began tentatively, because we kept expecting our January travel plans to get cancelled, as parts of the country were at the height of the second wave. Fortunately, we didn’t go into […]

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2020 – My year in review

My 2020 year in review To borrow the words of Queen Elizabeth II, 2020 was an annus horribilis for the world. The kind of year we don't ever want to see again. The year began innocently enough. After a busy year in 2019, we spent the first few days of January 2020 “recovering” from the high […]

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2019 - My year in review

My 2019 year in review 2019 turned out to be a good year in travel for me, despite a slow start. I visited eight countries, three of them for the first time - bringing my total country count to 47. As the year ends, I am relaxing at home, recovering from one of the most […]

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My 2018 Year In Review

My 2018 Year In Review Blogging also helps me to keep an online photo-journal of the places I’ve travelled to as they can start becoming a bit of a blur after a while. I enjoy reliving my travel memories and it’s also a good record for my family. 2018 seems to have flown by in […]

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My 2017 year in review

My 2017 year in review Another year has come to an end. I like doing these year-end reviews because it's a brief summary of what I've done for the year. This year I didn't travel as much as I would have liked to - although I did compensate in December. There just didn't seem to […]

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