When I started researching where to stay and visit around Lake Garda, I was intimidated. Yes, me. Intimidated by a very popular, very well-touristed region of a very easy country to travel; a country that I am very familiar with myself. Back when I looked at Lake Como, I instantly marked out recognisable names like …
Every September, hundreds of people gather on a tiny Scottish island mere minutes from another (larger) Scottish island, to watch hundreds of other people throw stones into the water. Or across the water, as is the aim of stone skimming – and where better for such an occasion than a slate quarry? Welcome to… the …
Fresh off the plane from my trip to Canada, I was swapping Calgary for Calgary Bay and heading to the west coast of Scotland for some much-needed Scottish island R&R before heading back to work. In keeping with the theme of my whole trip, this also didn’t go to plan. We were meant to be …
If there was an award for the most beautiful spot on earth, I reckon it would be Moraine Lake. This Canadian superstar has got the perfect viewpoint worthy of the bank note it adorned for years, with a snowy mountain background, a picturesque rocky foreground, and a tree-lined shore in between. And, if you get …
Back in 2024, a devastating fire ripped through Jasper National Park. Canada is sadly no stranger to wildfires in the summer months, but this was different. A third of Jasper town was destroyed, and people lost homes, businesses and livelihoods. Nobody was unaffected. It’s because of this that I wanted to make sure I scheduled …
I’ve spent a lot of time watching the sea planes taking off and landing over Vancouver’s harbour, so I decided on this trip that I’d like to finally take a ride on one of them. The problem is, when I looked at Harbour Air’s website, I discovered that they also offer a scenic flight from …
It’s decided: the age-old question of if you could only travel to one country for the rest of your life, where would it be? Mine is Canada. I’ve spent a lot of time in Canada over the years; almost ten months of my life, in fact. In that time, I’ve mostly only seen BC and …
Luggage is a necessary investment for travellers, and I won’t lie: whenever I need to buy a new suitcase, I always find it hard to choose what would be best. I recently tried out one of Level8’s hard-shell suitcases on a big trip around Canada, and I’ve just returned home so it’s time to report …
Once again, I have undertaken a trip to somewhere totally off the beaten path, resulting in me finding an even less beaten-path way back. This time, my mission was to get to Kosovo, which is actually pretty easy to visit from Albania. However, flights between Edinburgh and Tirana aren’t all that regular, so while I …
On my latest mad trip, I finally made it to Kosovo! I’d been trying to devise this plan for quite a while, and couldn’t quite put it together with the time off needed. I decided I’d probably put it off until I had a bit more time to allocate to Albania, but then perusing some …
