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Dublin, Ireland 17.10.16 - 20.10.16
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🍻 Dublin, Ireland 🍻 October 2016 One word to describe Dublin: Beerly. I’m sure that’s a real word somewhere in the world... But beer really was the star of the show, setting the stage for afternoons in dimly lit pubs with red-nosed friendly strangers - and of course the grand tour of the Guinness factory! . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #dublin #ireland #europe #streetview #colorful #cityscape #beer #streetphotography
☕️ Edinburgh, Scotland ☕️ October 2016 The gloomy skies, dark burnt bricks, layered landscape and pebbled streets in Edinburgh make for a serious Harry Potter experience. Few cities in Europe have such a prominent personality and no other place has ever made me feel like magic could happen any moment. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #edinburgh #scotland #europe #harrypotter #portraitphotography #portrait #danish #danishgirl #blueeyes #blondehair
🍦Rome, Italy🍦 August 2016 A few days of Rome to see the sights. It’s a lot harder to find authentic food and nice people in the hectic capital. It has it’s charm but, apart from the art and architecture, is not as easy to love as other Italian citites. This marks the end of this summer’s Italy-trip and we’re headed home to Denmark where Tamara will finish her degree at Copenhagen University. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #rome #italy #italian #europe #streetphotography #streetview #streetscape #colorful #icecream
🍕Orvieto, Italy🍕 August 2016 Orvieto, which is perched on top of a mountain, has a special place in our hearts. A picture of this very street hangs in the kitchen of Alex’s childhood home, and Orvieto is his family’s favourite place in the world. We send lots of thoughts to Ohio as we explore the corners of this unique place full of flowers, mountain views and lacy curtains. Ironically, the most beautiful and most romantic airbnb we ever stayed in is hosted by a crazy dragon-lady who follows us around to clean everything we touch. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #couplegoals #streetview #streetscape #danishgirl #europe #italy #italian #orvieto
⛰Perugia, Italy⛰ August 2016 In beautiful Perugia, we live with a local couple and their cats just outside the city. We get the best pizza of our lives from the little place down the road - a white pizza with lots of truffle and cheese. Absolutely amazing. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #sunset #landscape #cityscape #europe #italy #perugia #italian #pizza #cats #horizon
🍇Siena, Italy🍇 August 2016 When in Italy, there’s no need to search for a restaurant. We stop by the best cheese place, the bakery and a wine cellar and then make our way to the gorgeous central square to enjoy our make-shift dinner on the ground in the prettiest spot in the while city. Budget travel has its perks. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #travelgirl #blondegirl #danishgirl #danish #europe #italy #siena #streetview #wine #cheese
🚗Bologna, Italy🚗 August 2016 When I arrived in Italy to join Alex, he surprised me with a picnic basket full of cheese and wine ready for a date in the park. Bologna is a student town and we live in a student house with paint stains on everything and no door to the bathroom - an immersive experience that we enjoy every second of. . . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #redcar #streetview #italian #cityscape #flowers #italy #bologna #europ #travelitaly #traveleurope
🍃Isaberg, Sweden🍃 July 2016 A weekend with Tamara’s family by our old vacation house in Sweden. The endless woods, surrounding mountains and cold, rust colored lakes combined with rustique, home made sweets reminiscent of some Astrid Lindgren story makes it feel like time moves half as fast here. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #travelgirl #blondegirl #forest #swedish #sweden #summer #hiking
🌄Day 675: Ait Bendaddou, Morocco🌄 Our palace-like riad has all we need and more with an infinity pool, ornamented rooms, a sweet local family and the brightest stars and reddest sunsets we’ve seen since we got here. The fact that our two-year trip is almost over hits us hard as we’re looking online for an apartment in Copenhagen, Denmark. On the roof of our private moroccan palace, I play Alex the same songs on ukulele that I did back when we first met in Granada, Spain, before this adventure ever began. Hopefully, we’ll soon have a real home. No more counting days. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelescape #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelbloggers #travelblogger #travelfun #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #wanderlost #blondegirl #sunset #aitbenhaddou #morocco #africa #desert #desertscape #sunrise #homeiswheretheheartis #denmark
🔥Day 673: Ait Benhaddou, Morocco🔥 We don’t actually live in Ait Benhaddou (which is famous from Game of Thrones) but in a riad in the middle of an endless, dry desertscape with a view to the sandy city in the horizon. We do hike there to see it, remembering to bring plenty of water, dodging snake holes in the ground and wondering what would happen if we got hurt out here. It’s a beautiful place but not as beautiful as our own little palace in the desert. . . . . . . 📸 @gnargrimeslop @tamarahhansen #travelblogs #travelcouples #traveldames #travelgirl #travelmoreworryless #longdistancerelationships #wonderlust #wanderlust #travelblogger #wanderlusts #bestoftravel #travelcouplelife #travelcouplegoals #couplestravel #travelcouple #travelportrait #africa #desert #morocco #aitbenhaddou #gameofthrones #landscape #mountains #cityscape #desertscape #blondegirl #hiking #got #ouarzazate
🐫Day 672: Ouarzazate, Morocco🐫 This unknown city, made primarily out of clay, is located in the Moroccan desert next to several movie studios (the laws are beneficial to movie production in Morocco or something). As such, half the citizens in the tiny village are extras and feature in everything from Game of Thrones to Gladiator. We meet the guy who played a certain famous terrorist in the highest number of movies of all time as well as the beautiful little girl with bright, blue eyes from the famous dragon-queen scene of GOT. For dinner, we eat horse and camel steak.
🌵Day 670: Sahara desert, Morocco🌵 And so, we venture into the real deserty desert to spend a night in the dunes. The heat is unbearable until the sun has set behind the mountains of sand. Unfortunately, we miss the sunset due to a woman getting a cramp after two hours on camel back, halting our camel-parade in the middle of nowhere until a buggy makes it out to pick her up. We do, however, climb to the top of the tallest dune in sight and enjoy the complete silence and - eventually - darkness apart from the moon and stars. Actually, we don’t even sleep in the tent but spend the night right there in the sand.
Hi, I’m Tamara, the blonde half of SweetDistance travelblog. Just thought I’d show you my face now that you’ve all seen so much of my back 😅
Day 669: Tinghir, Morocco We book a three day tour to the desert and on the way stop in a village where the local trait is weaving camel-hair. The little village, nested in between sandy cliffs and the only little river in sight, is the home of a former nomadic people specialising in creating colourful, admirable moroccan carpets that we unfortunately cannot fit into our carry-on backpacks.
Day 666: Marrakech, Morocco Tamara spends several days in the hospital and the arrhythmia seizes seemingly without explanation. In the mean time, Alex explores the red city of Marrakech, avoiding scams at every street corner. While it’s a nice place to buy souvenirs and has some of the most amazing local areas if you really venture out of centre, Marrakech is not as appealing as other Moroccan cities in our experience. It is, however, the only place we’ve seen snake-whisperers make snakes peak out of woven baskets by playing the flute - just like in the movies.
Day 662: Essaouira, Morocco In a surprising turn of events, Tamara’s heart starts acting weird, doing double takes and stopping for seconds at a time. So we go to the hospital which is a real wake-up call. The toilets are feces-covered holes in the ground and the rooms are packed with ill people getting seemingly no treatment. Thanks to our travel insurance, we get to see the sunset over the desert from an ambulance transporting us hastily from Essaouira to an international hospital in Marrakech.
Day 660: Essaouira, Morocco We hear rumors that there’s a tiny place outside the city walls, behind a nondescript blue door, where you can actually buy wine (alcohol is pretty much banned in the whole country at the time of our visit). We get a bottle to share on our beautiful rooftop while we enjoy a pink sunset dotted with sea gulls accompanied by a soundtrack of stray kittens meowing in the street below. #essaouira #morocco
Day 658: Essaouira, Morocco We find ourselves back among tourism, markets and semi-aggressive salesmen in Essaouira, which never the less ends up being one of our favourite places in Morocco. The salty air, the city beach and the fresh seafood combined with the kind of western comfort you only find in highly touristy places makes it a very liveable city with plenty of local parts to explore still. We especially enjoy sneaking around the wall separating the Medina from the ocean and watching the deadly waves crush into the rocks. #essaouira #morocco
Day 656: Rabat, Morocco A quick stop in Rabat where we live with a guys who speak 8 languages, see Maitre Gims at the worlds 2nd largest music festival (which we had never heard of) and find out what a Moroccan metropolis looks like. The vibe here is buzzing and busy but it still has that sandy, authentic small-town-feel that we’ve grown to love about Morocco.
Day 654: Asilah, Morocco Asilah is a much more quiet and local city than we expected. It’s warm and we’re happy to wear shorts and feel the sun and sea breeze again. That is, until Tamara gets enough disapproving looks that we learn that shorts are not appropriate attire in these parts. The sandy, dusty streets and wide beaches makes the city feel like a desert by the ocean.

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