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22/03/2017

Greeting the day with warrior at La Joya with Balangan Yoga and Love. Swipe the picture to see the view!

BukitVista Hospitality Services Lajoya Hotel and Villa Balangan Beach Bali

21/02/2017

I dont think that my Bran/Brasov/Bucharest post worked either so here it is:

BRAN, BRASOV, AND BUCHAREST - ROMANIA

If you go to Romania you pretty much have to go to Bran castle, the most famous castle in the world. Each room is perfectly preserved in the style of the original furnishings and the architecture is incredible. Like a spooky fairytale, it had secret staircases and labyrinthine hallways, one secret passage was literally hidden behind a bookshelf - that's an absolute must-have in any house I will build.
Next to the castle is a historical village, with 600yo peasant houses sitting like little gingerbread houses in the snow, Sam and I had the place to ourselves and loved it as much as the castle.

We caught the bus back to Brasov and walked around the old town… I'm still just so obsessed with medieval walled towns. Although I was a bit miserable by the end of the day, it had been at most -10c all day and I was pretty frozen solid.

The next day, which was New Years Eve, we caught the train down to Bucharest through some of the most breathtaking scenery - lush snow covered forests, impossibly tall mountains, adorable little villages, and ski runs right next to the train.

We arrived in Bucharest in time to settle into our apartment before heading out to join in the festivities. A block away from where we were staying was a huge concert where we danced to the fun Romanian music, although we partied a bit too hard a bit too early, and were already to go home by 10pm. Luckily the fireworks went off literally right next to our apartment so we got an amazing show!
The rest of our stay in Bucharest was a bit uneventful, we both caught a cold, but still managed to get out and have a bit of a walk. Bucharest is really lovely, they call it the Paris of East Europe - so many of the old buildings are still so well preserved and just beautiful.

I can't seem to find pictures from Bucharest at the moment - hopefully they haven't been lost!

20/02/2017

This is from about 2 months ago, I just realised that the post failed.... So maybe it will work now?

SIGHISOARA - ROMANIA

Sam and I had a weekend away in an old Saxon town - Sighisoara, the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, and also Renate ;) Visiting Sighisoara was like stepping back in time 600 years, all the buildings were straight out a fairytale.
It is one of the best preserved Medieval citadels in Europe, with intact walls and towers at each corner. We stayed in a 500 year old house, just a short cobblestoned walk away from the town's beautiful clocktower. Inside the clocktower was a museum containing lots of medieval artifacts, and we watched the old clock's mechanism run at 12pm - Sam geeked out pretty hard at that, well me too.
Sighisoara's best attractions are its 13th and 14th century towers. Originally 14, now 9, the towers were built and managed by the town's guilds (like the blacksmiths, tailors, and cobblers, for example).
In our time there I think we explored every little corner of the town. We drank wine in the very house Vlad was born in, we went into the crypt underneath the town's 1000 year old church (oldest grave award - 16th century!), and we watched the sunset while drinking local wine, eating local chocolate, and chasing local cats in the cemetery. Pretty much a perfect afternoon in my books.
The train ride to and from Sighisoara was excellent too - great views of the countryside, our own little compartment, and some old people gave us chocolate :)

02/02/2017

Throwback Thursday - Some 360 clips from the beautiful Adriatic Sea. We hired a from Slovenia and camped our way down the coast, meeting up with some Australians on the way.

01/02/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 32 - Dobrota - Kotor Bay, Montenegro

Sam and I enjoying dinner on our little dock, looking out into the magnificent Kotor Bay.

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31/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 31 - Somewhere on the Croatian coast.

And here we are a month in on our 360 journey, some little village built into the side of a mountain.

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30/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 30 - Somewhere on the Croatian coast.

Driving the Croatian coastline was one of Chloe's bucket list items - views like this non-stop for over 600km.

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29/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 29 - Pag, Croatia.

This is my happy place.

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28/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 28 - Pag, Croatia.

Enjoying a bottle of red whilst swimming in the most beautiful beach.
The stones in the water are all pretty much huge chunks of different coloured marble.

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27/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 27 - Pag, Croatia

Going off-road to find a secret beach

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26/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 26 - The bustling beige metropolis that is Pag town - Pag, Croatia.

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25/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 25 - Pag, Croatia.

Just look at that water!

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24/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 24 - Pag island, Croatia.

Having a few beers in the sun, avoiding the sea urchins in the sea.

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23/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 23 - Island of Pag, Croatia

Tried to blag a free campsite for the night, but were immediately busted. Talked our way out of trouble and went for a swim.

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22/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 22 - Vintgar Gorge, just outside of Bled, Slovenia.

Made it through the forest and were treated to the most amazing view of the mountains and countryside around Bled, also there were a bunch a friendly goats.

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21/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 21 - Vintgar Gorge, just outside of Bled, Slovenia.

Taking the road less travelled through the forest to get back to our car, Chloe just a bit nervous about getting lost forever.

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19/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 20 - Vintgar Gorge, just outside of Bled, Slovenia.

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19/01/2017

360 Throwback Thursday! Pi**ed in the Adriatic, with some aussies we collided with.

18/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 19 - The Castle Courtyard, Lake Bled, Slovenia

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17/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 18 - The view from the Castle, overlooking Lake Bled (Slovenia).

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16/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 17 - Castle overlooking Lake Bled.

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15/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 16 - Ljubljana Town Center, Slovenia.

Can you see how cute this place is? It's bananas! There was a little 'fake rainshower' in the center which Chloe twirled in for a while.

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14/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 15 - Inside the Ljubljana AntiFa anarchist camp.

Ljubljana is literally a postcard down, a sweet little dinky place full of cobblestones and spires. The only deviation is an old prison/grounds that have become the home to the local anarchist community. It's a self regulating community filled with amazing art and sculpture, and apparently the town loves it because they help each other out and attract tourists.

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14/01/2017

PESTEANA - ROMANIA

Sam and I rented out a gorgeous little log cabin in the countryside to unwind for the week over Christmas, our first white Christmas! (Although most of the snow fell on boxing day)

We drank lots of mulled wine, made a gingerbread house, read books, played videogames, and relaxed by the fire - all the things you should do if you have a log cabin Christmas! Forgot to take photos of inside the cabin, but imagine what the most perfect cabin looks like inside and then that's it!

After realising we hadn't left the house in a couple days, we hiked though the hills behind the house. All the trees were covered in little thorns made of ice and sparkled in the sunlight, I've never seen anything so magical!

The fact that it was Christmas really reminded me of how far away from home, and friends, and family we are, but our host Rares ensured we got to really experience a warm traditional Romanian Christmas.

On Boxing day, Rares took us up to the mountains where we walked through a proper snow-covered pine forest and had a super fun snowball fight. Afterwards he took us to the Mayor's house where we sang traditional Romanian Christmas songs, feasted on local food and drank (maybe a bit too much) homemade plum wine, it was such a special and unique night and I feel so lucky to have had that experience! (Will upload some videos of us singing :) )

14/01/2017

CLUJ - ROMANIA

Based on a conversation with a guy we met in Berlin, Sam and I kind of spontaneously decided to visit Cluj, Romania. It's a student city in the north of Romania, the capital of the Transylvanian province, but with a small town vibe.

We were staying close to the Old Town, where you have all the cute old postcard-worthy buildings and streets, and sections of the old wall (yay!). Cluj is super cute, they had a sweet Christmas market in the town square, Christmas lights on every street-sign and building, a concert every night, as well as a heap of awesome cafes and restaurants (one in particular I loved that was completely decorated with steampunk furniture and sculptures). We also walked through this awesome old cemetery and skipped ice across the half frozen lake.

As you hit the outer suburbs of Cluj, it's all uniform communist-era apartment blocks, I have a new-found love for communist architecture, I find so much beauty in the brutalism and symmetry, but still there were lots of mid-century almost retro-futuristic buildings.

We found lots of interesting abandoned buildings too - once great monuments to manufacturing and industry, now crumbling and overgrown with weeds, beautiful in their desolation.

Across the road from our apartment was a massive church that's apparently been slowly getting built over the past 20 years, and then I realised - hey, when have you ever seen a church getting built? It's a bit of a culture shock to realise that there are many deeply religious countries still, where Australia is so secular. Our churches are getting turned into stylish apartments!

But my favourite part - just outside of Cluj there happens to be the "World's Most Haunted Forest" - apparently there have been multiple ghost and UFO sightings, as well as other strange happenings over the years. We didn't see anything spooky, but it was fun to pretend! This was the first time Sam and I hiked though a forest in the snow and it was so lovely and peaceful, the only signs of life being the many footprints left behind by foxes, rabbits, and deer (and werewolf tracks, but Sam doesn't believe me).

Unfortunately I think we somehow lost most of the photos taken from around Cluj, manage to get a couple off the phone at least.

13/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 14 - Gellért Hill, overlooking the Danube

We basically raced up a mountain to catch Budapest before the sun went down. It was the 20th kilometre we walked that day, but we still managed to watch the sun use the hill to carve a line over the city, cold beer in hand.

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13/01/2017

Pesteana, Boxing Day 2016. After leaving the mayor's house, we stopped in at Ardelean Marcel's friend's house for one quick song.... that turned into about 20 more.

By now Sam and I had drank a few plum wines and started to recognise parts of some songs and could sing along as you can see in this video.

Such a special night! Thanks Rares and Gabi! Hateg Island

13/01/2017

Pesteana, Boxing Day 2016.

After an afternoon in the snow we went to the Mayor's house and sang traditional Romanian Christmas songs. Sam decided to film the cakes for about half the video, don't they look tasty.

Oh and when they asked us what were some traditional Australian Christmas songs - we sang How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly, of course.

12/01/2017

360 degrees in 365 days, Day 13 - Matthias Fountain, in a courtyard of Buda Castle - Budapest

You can't tell in the photo, but we'd been bickering the whole wall up. And that lady in the flower dress took like 300 photos of herself so she is also in all our photos too. Thanks a lot lady.

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12/01/2017

360 Throwback Thursday! - We bimble around Bled Lake, Slovenia, rambling about any old thing.

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Cruising and camping through the Adriatic in 30

Throwback Thursday - Some 360 clips from the beautiful Adriatic Sea. We hired a from Slovenia and camped our way down the coast, meeting up with some Australians on the way.

Tipsy in the Adriatic in 360 - Pag, Croatia

360 Throwback Thursday! Pissed in the Adriatic, with some aussies we collided with.

Pesteana, Boxing Day 2016. After leaving the mayor's house, we stopped in at Ardelean Marcel's friend's house for one quick song.... that turned into about 20 more. By now Sam and I had drank a few plum wines and started to recognise parts of some songs and could sing along as you can see in this video. Such a special night! Thanks Rares and Gabi! Hateg Island

Pesteana, Boxing Day 2016. After an afternoon in the snow we went to the Mayor's house and sang traditional Romanian Christmas songs. Sam decided to film the cakes for about half the video, don't they look tasty. Oh and when they asked us what were some traditional Australian Christmas songs - we sang How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly, of course.

Wandering around Bled Lake, Slovenia

360 Throwback Thursday! - We bimble around Bled Lake, Slovenia, rambling about any old thing.

360 Adventures, Bran Castle, Romania - The set of of Bram Stok...

Exploring Bran, The setting for Bram Stokers Dracula.

360 walkthrough of Budapest

360 throwback thursday! Bumbling around the streets of Budapest earlier this year.

360 Adventures - Exploring the mountains of Pesteana, Romania

We jumped in the back of a van and ended up in the forest. If you're digging our videos give them a share to spread the love! Hanging out with: the Hateg Island crew. Music: I Will Be There - Ketsa

360 Adventures - Christmas in Pesteana

For Christmas we settled in a cabin in the hills of Pesteana. We explore the hills, hear traditional carols and build a grotesque ginger bread house. We feel really lucky to be able to share our trip with you all and we hope you have a merry christmas and a happy new year. If you're digging our videos give them a share to spread the love!

360 snowfight in Romania

A cheeky snowball fight breaks out.

360 walk through of Ljubljana, Slovenia

A little bit more of Ljubljana, without the blathering. (Reposting so it's actually in 360 now!)

360 wander through Ljubljana, Slovenia

360 Throwback Thursday! Wandering through Ljubljana, eating icecreams in Slovenia.

360 Adventures - Exploring Pag with some other aussies

We hooked up with some fellow Australians and checked the hell out of Pag, croatia.

360 Budapest walkthrough

Bimble round Budapest to some Cptdoom

360 Adventures - Hoia forest, Romania - The most haunted fores...

Exploring the (apparently) most haunted forest in the world - Hoia forest, Romania - in 360.

360 timelapse - sunset over Kotor Bay, Montenegro

360 timelapse - sunset over Kotor Bay, Montenegro. You can see us having a picnic on the dock, and if you watch closely you can see the point where I fell off the dock trying to do a tricep dip.

6 days of partying in 360 at Ozora Festival, Hungary

Our 360 walk through of Edinburgh, featuring castles, road rage and pointy buildings.

Taking the dingy into a cave filled with millions of sparrows - just saw this footage, turned out ok! Samuel Tate Goudie James Baxter Kareem Magill

Sam flying down an 800m zipline high above the forest floor - such good fun!

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360 snowfight in Romania

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360 wander through Ljubljana, Slovenia

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