I’m not a *big* city lover, but there are plenty of cities that I love! Read all my city break guides here.
I’ve got a dedicated page to city breaks if you want to see it all on a better layout too.
Kyoto was one of my most anticipated places in the whole of Japan. This historical and traditional city evokes every image of Japan that most people have – incredible temples, narrow streets with quintessential Japanese architecture, pagodas rising up in the distance, beautiful Japanese gardens, red torii gates, shrines lit up at night with lanterns, …
On arrival in Japan, most people are going to be thrown straight into the biggest city in the world, Tokyo. And, despite not being a huge city fan, Tokyo immediately became one of my favourites! There is just something about this dynamic, engaging, mad city that hits all of your senses head-on in the best …
My recent trip to Riga was for one main reason: Christmas markets! It seems a bit strange to be writing about Christmas markets right now, but after my previous Riga post about what a disaster the trip ended up being, I really wanted to write about what I loved about it. Because actually, Riga was …
We weren’t originally meant to go to Warsaw. Our plan was to visit Gdansk for a weekend, but a few weeks before the trip our flight home got cancelled and we were moved to a flight the next day instead. Unfortunately this meant we had to book the day off work, for a lunchtime flight …
There are countless city destinations all over Europe, and it feels like we have visited loads this year – and to my surprise, one that I loved more than most has been Gdansk. “Where?” my colleague asked, before promptly booking a flight to join us on the trip. It’s in Poland, by the way. This …
The main point of flying to Venice wasn’t to visit Italy at all, despite that becoming the bulk of the trip – it was to finally visit the neighbouring country of Slovenia, somewhere that has been on my list for years. It seemed a bit silly, then, to barely be spending three days in the …
Venice is one of the most unique places in Europe – but it’s also one of the busiest, with tourists descending on the sinking city in their thousands every single day. It’s a city that a lot of people don’t expect to love, and depending on your experience, your expectations could be right. Me? I …
After our Dusseldorf Disaster™, we headed over to Cologne on a short train ride that went much more smoothly than any other public transport we’d experienced in Germany. We’d only have the rest of the day in Cologne, although research told me it was small enough that we could hit up the highlights pretty quickly …
In November, I finally visited Poland for the first time! One of our best friends wanted to go somewhere for Christmas markets, and we mused over various German destinations before I piped up that we could do something different and go to Poland. None of us had been to Poland before, and most of the …
Belgium is the perfect country to explore several of its main cities in one trip – owing to its size and ease of getting around, my planned pit-stop turned into a journey through three cities which gave me a whirlwind overview of the country. After Budapest, I’d decided to come home via Belgium – due …
