Awarded  THE VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD!

We are having a great run having coming in at #1 on the Top 1000 Travel Blogs this week, being given the Liebster Award recently, and now the delightful Norwegian travel blogger Bente, has named us for the Versatile Travel Blogger Award.

Thank you so much Bente, of Travel with all senses who has a very interesting site and has done some amazing travels.

We appreciate this honour, which recognises the diversity and passion that is in evidence by all people who blog, and not just travel bloggers. We have been fortunate to work and interact with people from all over the world and from many different fields. This is why the Versatile Blogger Award is important. It allows you to meet new and very interesting people who choose this crazy way of life.

How the Versatile Travel Blogger Award works

1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Link to their blog
3. Nominate 15 bloggers for the award and let them know.
4. Put the Badge on your site
5. Share 7 facts about yourself.

The bloggers that we have nominated for The Versatile Blogger Award are: drum roll please

1. Travel with Bender
2. World Travel Family
3. Goats on the Road
4. Travel with World
5. The Nomadic Family
6. 42nd class 
7. Angela’s Travels
8. Where’s Sharon?
9. Laugh Quotes
10. Curb Free with Corey Lee
11. Sunny in London
12. Crazy in the Rain
13. Reflections Enroute
14. As we saw it

Now, 7 things you may not know about us:

1. Gordon loves sci-fi movies and books and it bothers him that I have never even seen any Star Wars movies, though I do like Dr Who, so that sort of counts. Hope the new Dr. is good, I am a bit worried.

2. We are highly competitive in everything to do with sports or even board games. There are no holds bar – despite Gordon being good at sports, I can still kick his butt at tennis, he is disagreeing with this, but in fairness he is a much better skier than me. He has no chance at backgammon however. I wouldn’t want him to give me an advantage just because he is a male and twice my size.

3. On the spur of the moment we flew across the world to see a total eclipse of the sun in Turkey, purely because Gordon was watching the sun rise on his way to work and somehow made a weird connection. In saying that, I had read about a fire festival in a traditional Japanese village where they also had excellent powder and that started our annual pilgrimage to Nozawa Onsen.

4. I pick up random people wherever I go, not that Gordon is always impressed with this skill. When we were at an art show I got talking to this man who was one of the major artists who gave us a behind the scenes tour and we met many famous artists. Ok, he didn’t mind this but he was a little cranky when I was talking to a man at the snow last year and it turns out he was just released from jail, but actually is quite a famous snowboard video maker. It’s not my fault that I attract different people, in fact it does make for some very interesting times.

5. We  both love the beach, which is where we live but we are also both snow people. Not just the skiing but the whole magical snow experience. When we are at home we walk on the beach twice a day, but always head for a coffee shop, because we are total coffee snobs.

6. I love ancient history and have taught Ancient Egyptian and Roman history forever. For any of you history buffs, I particularly like the female pharaoh Hatsehpsut. So history is always incorporated into our travels.

7. We both love art, and I am now obsessed with street art and street food and what it tells us about a place. Maybe there is something in that for all of us.

Now it is up to our new Versatile Travel Blogger Award winners, to do the same. Again, thank you Bente, and we look forward to reading all of the new award winners 7 things about themselves.