The Uyuni Salt Flats, also called Salar de Uyuni, are the largest salt flats in the world. Found in south west Bolivia, they form a unique and magnificent landscape. The salt flats cover an area 10,582 square kilometers. Formed from evaporated prehistoric lakes at...
Orrest Head is one of my favourite walks in Windermere. It can be as easy or as hard as you want to make it. You can follow the main trail and be on the summit in about 30 minutes, or you can follow the myriad of other trails and spend several hours exploring this...
One of the best walks in the Lake District, I believe, is the Coniston Water walk. It is a favourite! This Lake District walk has everything: views of the fells and the lake, a lake-shore path, woods, great picnic spots! The route I am outlining here is a circular...
Topless women riding pink dolphins, towering animatronic tigers, crocodiles breathing fire, hundreds of feathered and sequined dancers dressed as cannabis plants and sunflowers performing the samba through a stadium…This is the carnival parade in Brazil – WOW! I...
Vang Vieng in Laos is a stunning location and one of the best things to do while there is to go swim in one (or more) of the blue lagoons. Yes, Vang Vieng had a somewhat notorious reputation as a wild party town, but that is in the past. It is working hard to change...
Flashback fifteen or twenty years and Vang Vieng had the reputation for being a wild party town the likes of Koh Phangan. Not anymore… What is Vang Vieng like today? In 2012, after reports of dozens of tourists dying each year in the notorious river tubing, the...
Hello! I’m Jane. I live in the Lake District in the north of England with my husband, Peter. We love to travel, but this is a great place to call home.
I started this blog as a sort of journal and a way to let family and friends follow our travelling adventures. However, it gained a little traction online and now I find myself writing for a wider audience, trying to create articles that are helpful and informative to fellow travellers.
Everything I write is based on personal experience. I do not write about places I have not visited. All photos are taken by me (or occasionally Peter or someone to whom I have passed my phone if you see a pic of the two of us). I do not edit photos in any way other than to compress in order that the site loads quickly. Basically, what you see is what you get. If a place is crowded, the crowds are in the photo; if the weather is grey, it is grey in the photo; if there is scaffolding on a building, there is scaffolding in my photo. You get the picture!
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Jane
Guest Author
I have always made a point of never accepting guest posts on AbFabTravels, but I have just made an exception! My daughter Beth is currently on a sabbatical and travelling the world. She has agreed to contribute a few articles, giving a young person’s perspective and insights into a different way of travelling. She is a fantastic writer so please check out her posts.
Meet Jasper, our border collie!
Jasper is our lockdown pup! You will see him in many of the posts, especially those about the Lake District where we live, or those where we are travelling in our motorhome. He is very friendly and needs a lot of exercise so we are always out and about with him. If we are travelling further afield, he stays at home with family.