Fancy a city break? Check out all my weekend guides (plus long weekends and even day trip guides!) here for some of my favourite cities.
I don’t think any city is more beautiful when it comes to architecture than Vienna. My long-lasting impression of Vienna from my brief first visit was just how pristine and immaculate every single building was. I’d walked a lot over the course of the day, and I hadn’t found a single brick out of place. …
There’s something magical about Christmas markets in a medieval city, and last month I headed off to Tallinn for the ultimate medieval festive break. The Baltics have been growing in popularity for their Christmas markets in recent years, and I’ve now been to Christmas markets in all three Baltic countries – Kaunas in Lithuania in …
I’ve spent the past couple of years visiting a lot of European cities, adding to an ever-growing list that I’ve been working through for years before that. From history and culture to food and architecture, as well as quirky pubs and unique attractions, cities around Europe have endless fun to offer. Best of all, most …
Arriving in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, I truly had no idea what I’d find there. My one preconception of Moldova is that it’s completely mad. This is entirely based on Eurovision, in which they have entered many of Eurovision’s most batshit crazy contestants. They are, after all, responsible for Epic Sax Guy. Not to …
Stepping off the boat at 8am, I had a long day ahead in which I hoped to see as much of Tallinn, Estonia’s charming capital city, as possible. A lot of people do visit Tallinn as a day trip on the ferry from Helsinki, but I had done it with a twist – I’d spent …
From Stockholm, I flew on to Helsinki, the final of my Nordic capitals to visit. I’ve got to admit I wasn’t expecting a lot from Helsinki, which may have contributed to my decision to arrive later and cut down my time in the city to basically one day. The good thing is, there wasn’t a …
Our weekend in the south of France may have been more about visiting Monaco, but the biggest surprise of our trip was just how much we enjoyed Nice. For some reason, the French Riviera has never been high up on my list, and to be honest if it wasn’t for Monaco we probably still wouldn’t …
Luxembourg is one of those small countries in Europe that has always managed to elude me – its location amongst several other accessible countries means it should be easy to visit, and yet I couldn’t quite get there. With no flights from Scotland, the only way to visit is from another country, and most people …
While writing my main Riga blog post, I had a problem. I had sooooooo many photos to use. How on earth was I going to narrow it down from an already shortlisted 100 to an acceptable amount for a blog post? Well, it soon became apparent that a chunk of my photos were… silly. Even …
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 …
