Travel diaries & films from a Hampshire couple
Late starters.
Long list.
We're Mark and Jenny. Since 2019 we've taken midlife from Ibiza to Antarctica, and written up every single day of it: where we stayed, what it cost in early starts, and what went wrong.
Ocean Endeavour, Antarctic Peninsula, Nov 2023 · photo by Mark
- 8countries,
plus Antarctica - 127day-by-day
diaries - 32films on
YouTube - 89days until
Thailand
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Come along.
Every coral pin is somewhere we've been. Click one to watch the films and open the diaries, Things to Know and packing list for that trip.
Ibiza · August 2026
The real Ibiza, and an eclipse
Cloud stole totality.
We still got the crescent sunset.
San Antonio, the Old Town, and the evening the sun went down as a crescent over Cala Tarida. The full story of the eclipse, the haze and the taxi saga is in the day-by-day diary.
Three corners
of the map
Our own photos, not stock and not AI. Each continent page lists every trip with its diary, Things to Know and packing list.
Portal Point, by Mark
Hello
We're Mark & Jenny
A couple from Hampshire who decided midlife was a good time to see a lot more of the world. We travel on our own most of the time and join a group now and then, like Intrepid Travel for Antarctica and our friend Karl Watson's trip to Switzerland.
Everything here is first-hand. If we didn't go there, it isn't on the site. That includes the bits that went wrong, like ten days of Covid quarantine in Thailand and the rain that kept us out of Taroko Gorge.
Mark & Jenny
Bags nearly packed
The countdown to our next trip. Follow along on YouTube and the diaries will appear here day by day.
Phi Phi, last timeand then… Vietnam in March 2027. It's already hatched on the map.
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the diaries
One post for every day we're away, with the timings, the costs and the bits that went wrong.
Day 5: Farewell to Ibiza
Our last day in Ibiza in 2026: checking out of Hotel Puchet in San Antonio, the airport transfer and the flight home after eclipse week.
Day 4: Old Friends and Fatboy Slim at Cafe Mambo
Catching up with old friends in San Antonio, the ferry across the bay, dinner at Wi-Ki-Woo and Fatboy Slim’s sunset set at Cafe Mambo.
Day 3: Total Solar Eclipse at Cala Tarida
The 2026 solar eclipse from Cala Tarida, Ibiza: partial phases and a crescent sunset over the sea, but low cloud and haze hid totality.
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Every trip becomes a film, from puffins on Skomer to the Drake Passage. New ones go up as we travel.
