I’ve visited over 40 European countries – you can read about my experiences here!
Here are my top 5 countries in Europe:
⭐ Portugal
⭐ Iceland
⭐ Italy
⭐ Switzerland
⭐ Norway
And a bonus because I can’t narrow it down to 5:
⭐ Bosnia & Herzegovina
When I met my friend in October to see her off back to Australia, we had a plan to see lots of odd places in London that we hadn’t been to before. We’ve both been to London countless times, seen all the landmarks over and over, and this visit was more about going off-beat and …
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 …
Budapest is famous for its thermal spa baths all over the city, but two in particular are popular with tourists: Szechenyi and Gellert. I’ve written about both briefly in my post about Budapest, as my friend and I ended up visiting both after we couldn’t choose which would be the best to visit – and …
A few months ago, I finally returned to Budapest, eight years after my first visit. Budapest very quickly became one of my favourite cities in Europe, and I was curious to see how I would find it a second time around, and whether the magic would capture me just as instantaneously as it did the …
I’ve just returned from a spontaneous trip to Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania. Why Kaunas? Quite simply, a) because there were cheap flights, b) they worked for a long weekend for which I had one day’s holiday left to take at work, and c) I’ve never been to Lithuania before! Truthfully, I’d never …
Did you know that Hogwarts is actually in Scotland? And that you can ride on the actual Hogwarts Express through the beautiful Scottish highlands, including over the iconic viaduct from the Harry Potter movies, to get there*? As if I needed any more reasons to be proud to call this place home, whack in some …
Sintra is by far the most popular day trip destination from Lisbon, and I have soooo many photos to prove why. So many, in fact, that while I wrote about our day trip to Sintra in my Lisbon post, I didn’t go into great detail because I had way too many photos to include, and …
After a short time in Porto, we were off further south to the bigger, busier and sunnier city of Lisbon. It’s no secret that I fell in love with Lisbon on my first visit to Portugal, and I couldn’t wait to get back to the iconic tiles, the beautiful terraces and even the leg-killing hills. …
Knowing how much I absolutely loved Lisbon a few years ago, I was very excited to not only be getting back there, but also to finally hit up Porto. I’ve always, always heard good things about Porto – it feels like Lisbon’s little sister with even more hills. We were only going to have one …
Did you know that there’s a major city on the border of THREE countries? Enter: Basel. While the city is officially in Switzerland, my favourite fact about Basel is that you can walk to both France and Germany! As you’ll know from my last post, the main reason we booked flights to Basel was actually …
