Top Lists

We visited 10 countries this year, and we fell in love with a lot of the places we visited. Which cities made it into our top five favorite destinations of 2012?

Since we began travelling in April 2010, every single day has meant trying something for the first time or meeting someone new. We have had so many new experiences; it has been easy to overlook any cravings for things from ‘home’.

Ah, the South. In a land where Mac’n’Cheese is considered a vegetable, we did manage to find some fantastic vegetarian options on our Great American road trip through the South this year. Caution: this post will make you hungry!

Cruising down the PCH from L.A. to Laguna Beach is just like out of a movie. Read on for the Globetrottergirls top 5 stops along this stretch of the PCH.

Following our reflections on 200 days of travel, here are the tops and flops of our last 100 days on the road:

Obviously there are thousands of things to love about Santiago, but we are sharing the 33 things we loved the most and that made Chile’s capital special for us:

We have had some amazing ups and disappointing downs, and share with you here our tops & flop moments, experiences and recommendations below.

We have traveled almost the entire length of Chile (4,300km) in over 4 months and are sharing our five favorite places we would hate to see you miss in Chile.

This year has been a total beach for the two of us. Having spent over five months on the coast around the world, we share our top five beaches of the year in this post.

We never meant to start our globetrotting adventure in Las Vegas. A series of random circumstances led us to start in Sin City, but after three and a half cold & rainy years in England, the sweltering and sunny Nevada desert seemed the perfect kick-off for our around-the-world journey.

Neither of us are any good at gambling, and with no desire to lose all our savings to slots and booze, we set out to explore how to enjoy the city of Vegas beyond the sin.