It does not always have to be a 6 months trip!

Trip suggestions from CompassChronicle

Well, unfortunately we can’t (yet?) travel 365 days a year. That’s why we always make shorter trips like a long weekend to Portugal in the Duoro Valley or to Haarlem or a 3-week vacation trip to Sumatra, Indonesia.

Here we list our short trips by topicality. Maybe you will find a place you can go to during your visit on our website?
Or maybe you have a tip where we should go for our next short trip.

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We are Paddy and Mimi, a travel-hungry couple from tiny Switzerland in the middle of Europe. We call ourselves slow travelers, because we like to spend enough time in one place or country. Therefore we don’t only visit the typical sights but also get to know the culture of the respective country.

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Tortuguero National Park

Tortuguero National Park

Welcome to the next piece of nature in Costa Rica! In the last few days, we drove straight to the Caribbean coast without many detours. On the way there, we were also able to catch a glimpse of the vast banana plantations in Costa Rica. This gave us a graphic...

Monteverde cloud forest

Monteverde cloud forest

Costa Rica's many tropical climate zones also include higher, cooler and, due to their special location, always humid forest areas. Here in the hills in the middle of Costa Rica's two coastlines, we visit the Monteverde Biological Nature Reserve, which is particularly...

Rio Celeste National Park

Rio Celeste National Park

Hello and welcome to Costa Rica! Our first impressions confirm many expectations – both positive and negative. On the one hand, Costa Rica is very tidy, safe and even at the border the officials were very helpful and friendly. In stark contrast to other countries here...

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