“Extreme day trips” seem to be all the rage in the UK and Europe at the moment, with Facebook groups popping up for people to share their crazy adventures. I’m no stranger to the concept of extreme day trips – back in 2012, I took a day trip to Munich, and the following year another …
I’d like to introduce, possibly, my new favourite place in Poland: Wroclaw! I say this with some trepidation because it’s really, really hard to beat Gdansk. I honestly can’t decide if it does, but I can wholeheartedly say that Wroclaw is fantastic. I’m skipping ahead several trips (I’ve had a very busy few months in …
On our recent trip to Rhodes, I decided to head across the water to Turkey – only an hour on the ferry, it’s within easy reach of the Greek island, so it was a no-brainer for me to visit a new country for under £40. I say it was a no-brainer, but if you’ve read …
One of the maddest additions to our recent trip to Italy was a day trip to the tiny country of San Marino. In itself, this wouldn’t be a weird stop to add – but originally, the trip was just going to be Venice and Slovenia. We decided to add another country to the list, and …
When my friend announced that she was going to be on the west coast of the USA, including Seattle, for a few days, I immediately messaged her. “I’ll be in Vancouver, I could totally come visit you!!” I had it all visualised in my head: get the bus or train down, stay in a hostel …
While I was on the Algarve, I kept hearing the same things over and over again: Seville is AMAZING. To be honest, I have never really “got” Spain from my previous trips to Barcelona and the border towns by Gibraltar, but everyone was telling me that Seville was beautiful and absolutely worth visiting. On my …
One March a few years ago, I had a crazy idea to take a day trip abroad; somewhere other than Paris or Belgium. Somewhere no one would think to go just for the day, because we are lucky in the UK that we have the opportunity to even do that. Browsing different destinations on easyJet, …
