Rosi's Travel Blog
When our best friend Amy said she was coming home from Australia for the first time in 4 years we were all very excited to see her, and even more excited when we managed to book our first holiday together in 17 years. Yes thats right 17 years of friendship and we have never mustered …
Saturday 25th Janaury 2025.At this point I’ve been away a week … and it honestly feels like months! I think this happened before? Time felt it was moving slowly. Oh no that’s the opposite.. but it’s not feeling like time is escaping me. I guess that’s the beauty of not setting an alarm, and taking …
Friday 24th janaury 2025I woke up and had a snoozey morning, which was quite nice. Everyone dwindled away making their own journeys to Ella and then it was my turn. I said goodbye to the hostel and the lady organised me a Tuk Tuk and gave me a Kit Kat. It was the same driver …
Thursday 23rd JanI woke up the day after our eventful tour, and Lou had told me she’d been googling about the Spice Garden and read that Tour drivers get paid commission for taking people there. Oh dear, it just gets worse. (I paid £60 for herbal remedies because I love natural products, but then remembered …
Tuesday 21st JanuaryAfter waiting a little while to get my passport back and trying to explain myself so they understood, I was relinquished from the Monastery. I felt relief as I walked to the bus stop. I waited, a bus stopped to let someone off and then drove past me, so I thought I’d look …
Spoiler alert, yes I did visit a Monastery with the intention to stay for 2 nights and I did leave early. When I was explaining this to the people at the hostel I went to in Kandy, one guy remarked “you went to a monastery and didn’t expect it to be like that?”, well no, …
Sunday 19th January 2025 I was so surprised that I slept in until 12pm. I mean I did go to bed at like 8am. It’s weird staying in a house stay because I almost felt like I had to get up in case the host Steph was worried about me ?! I’m so weird. So …
So I didnt quite know that quitting my job and going to Sri Lanka for 3 weeks was on the cards for 2025, but here we are! A friend of mine commented ” You’re using your savings for traveling again, you’ll never be able to buy a house”. I don’t even know if I want …
So after leaving the hostel on the beach in Juanchaco via a motor bike tuc tuc, a boat, a trip to the supermarket, a taxi to the bus stop in Bueanaventura, a bus to Cali and then an over night bus (8pm to 6am) we arrived in Nieve. Feeling like I’d been awake for about …
26t to 1st May 2023 From Medellin, the bus dropped us in Penol. A small town where we would be camping for 5 nights. We got a cab to the camp site, which was down some country roads, full of lush greenery and so so beautiful! We arrived at the camp site which was run …