The World in a Weekend Author

Hi, we are Rachel and Tim from The World in a Weekend. We treat every trip as a once in a lifetime experience, maximising our time by squeezing in as many sites and activities as we can. Our ultimate goal is to visit every country in the world (one weekend at a time). We seek to inspire, expose different experiences, and hope others follow in our footsteps and travel out of their normal comfort zones. We love to motivate and get people to try new things and fully immerse themselves in different destinations. Our passion is to discover secret wonders and try new things, and we are committed to report our honest findings to our loyal readers.

Our Top Tips for Travelling with a Baby

As we will explain in an upcoming post “First Trips Travelling with a Baby” we don’t claim to be experts on this topic (yet!) but here are our top tips and lessons learnt...

Flights • Packing • Travel Tips|

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Northern Lights

Travel Tips: How YOU can see the Northern Lights

It snowed! After the rest of the UK had seemingly been living in Narnia, we finally got some snow (albeit as light dusting) but it led me to reminisce over our Iceland gallery...

Europe • Fresh Air • Iceland • Travel Tips • Weird & Wonderful|

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South Africa Babymoon – Itinerary

With everything going on in the world with Covid-19 and lockdown there doesn’t seem to be a good time to post. But as we are almost at the end of our pregnancy I thought it was...

Africa • Babymoon • Itineraries|

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Ilha Grande, Brazil, Vila Pedra Mar, Honeymoon

Ilha Grande – A Brazilian Paradise

A light breeze caressing your skin, the soothing sounds of the rainforest mingling with the gentle, rhythmic lapping of the waves, warm sand between your toes and not another soul...

Beaches • Brazil • Honeymoon • Relax • South America|

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Casa de Uco, Mendoza, honeymoon, the world in a weekend

Casa de Uco, Mendoza, Room Review

Casa de Uco is a high-end luxury wine experience in Mendoza. The private estate is a hotel, bodega (winery) and restaurant that includes a full spa and Andean activities including...

Argentina • Honeymoon • South America|

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Venice Engagement

She Said Yes: A Surprise Engagement in Venice

12:45pm on a Thursday afternoon. Most of my colleagues were our for lunch but a few still lingered at their desks. Do I make the phone call in public or sneak off to a meeting...

Italy|

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Stargazing on the Salar de Uyuni

Stargazing on the Salar de Uyuni

People associate the Bolivian Salt flats as a bright, crystal white moonscape that provides tourists with fun photo ops. Obviously, this isn’t wrong and quite frankly we...

Bolivia • South America • Weird & Wonderful|

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Salar de Uyuni

Salar de Uyuni

The great plains of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni are otherworldly. They are also of course, a pretty popular tourist destination. The nearby town of Uyuni serves...

Bolivia • Day Trips • South America|

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24 hours in Vientiane, Laos

I’d always regretted not making it to Laos when we were in South East Asia (see our itinerary here). After visiting South Korea, since we were so close,  I jumped at the chance...

Itineraries • Laos|

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Fundo Chincheros

Peru Off the Beaten Track: Fundo Chincheros

For us, the small town of Puno in the South East of Peru, was a tale of two halves. We chose to base ourselves in Puno on the way from Cusco to La Paz. Situated on the shore of...

Peru • South America|

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