Welcome to Travelling Simply. We hope you enjoy reading stories from our travels and are inspired to go out to see the world so you can make your own travel stories.

How to see more of Paris for free

Pascal joined us at our pre-arranged meeting place right on time. We had arrived a little earlier which gave us ...

Global Greeters – see a city with a local!

Interested in seeing more than the tourist highlights of a city, then see it with a local "Greeter". Greeters are, ...

Why we love to drive. Are you ready to join us on the journey?

Preparations for our next travel and driving adventure are almost complete. Setting our plan some months ago, we researched our ...

Lease a car to self-drive

A brand new car! You may have gathered by now that we love our driving holidays. On our shorter holidays ...

The day our car disappeared!

We wake to a sunny morning in Sienna and the decision is made, this is a perfect day to take ...

Sienna, Tuscany, Italy

We left the hustle and bustle of Florence for the quieter Tuscan city of Sienna. What a pleasant surprise. Sienna ...

Take a leisurely drive through Chianti, Tuscany

The ultimate dream for many who visit Italy is to spend time in Tuscany, to wander through medieval hilltop towns ...

Santiago de Compostela – the end of “The Way”

Thick grey clouds hovered over the mountains as we crossed the border from Portugal into Spain.  Then the drizzle set ...

Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain

Santiago de Compostela in the northwestern corner of Spain is often overlooked by tourists who prefer to flock to the ...

The long road to Oia

“You’ll have to get off and maybe even help push this thing up the hill”, he said. Had I put ...