Vero and Thomas' Travels
(2026-January)
Hello and welcome!
This website is our on-going attempt at preserving and sharing our trips, all the wonderful impressions, the memorable moments and the odd opinionated observation, with friends, relatives or indeed anyone who is interested.
At the start of a new year, we like to reflect about the past one and dream about the new one: we are currently planning our next big trip for 2026 with South Korea and Japan on the map.
2025 has been an European year. We started in Brittany in our usual haunt of La Baule. We love the Atlantic coast in Winter, it is particularly pleasant with nobody around and a good weather most of the time.
March saw us for three weeks in the West Country (UK); we were lucky with the weather and enjoyed it so much that we returned for two weeks in October. We have brought back many pictures, you can also check here for some impressions of what we did and saw.
After the success of our Spanish trip of 2024, we returned for a road trip in May and June and toured the regions of Castilla y Léon, Extremadura and Navarra, mixing historic cities and great landscapes.
We stayed home for the Summer and then it was time to leave again: we headed to Paris at the end of August where we spent a week with a special treat, the David Hockney 25 exhibition. We drove from there to Switzerland and Germany, discovering some nice French towns and visiting great museums on the way.
Of course, in-between travels, we managed many short trips around our adopted home country, the United Kingdom and we made good use of our time at home to update our site, a time consuming affair unfortunately with a lot of work still to be done: it's hard to keep up!
For each trip, we have blogs, emails written on the road and sections with photographs and further background information about the countries and regions we're currently visiting or have seen.
The map on the right gives you a rough idea of our long distance travels, and yes, there is a pattern: we do like Asia! You can view the map below and individual maps of most our long distance trips in detail on the Travellers Point Website.
We have also created a new section called Mixed Bag where you'll find things we like or find interesting and want to share but which do not fit into any of the other sections of TRVL2.
A few general questions you might have are perchance answered on the FAQs page. There is also a page with links to some interesting sites which we ourselves visit every now and then. Last but not least, if you want to get in touch, see the Contact page. We read all mails we receive (though not necessarily in a very speedily manner) and we appreciate any kind of feedback; however, we're especially keen to hear from you if you spot an error or an omission or if you have a suggestion.
A few notable things: every page has Path and Tags information at the very top. The Path link brings up a map of the section you're currently browsing; it is followed by the trail of pages that led to the current page. The Tags link opens a page with all defined tags, whereas the tag links themselves show an index page for that tag. Below these links is the main menu: its top level should work with all browsers but the submenus do require Javascript to be enabled in your browser.
Our multimedia stuff (ie slideshows, photo galleries, videos and podcasts) as well as the dropdown menus use HTML5 and Javascript. If you don't see what you think you should see please check whether you have a modern browser and make sure Javascript is enabled in your browser. If you have security concerns re Javascript, our use of Javascript is safe... but of course that's also what the baddies will tell you:-).
Also, we recommend using a decent web browser like Mozilla Firefox or Vivaldi for best viewing and do take our advice: keep off Microsoft Edge.
All texts, photos and videos on this website are copyrighted. Anyone who wants to (re-)use material from these pages should contact us beforehand. All media are also available in higher resolution, please contact us if required.
Have fun!
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