A couple of years ago, I decided something needed to change. I had visited London at least 60 times, and yet I had never done any of the big tourist attractions. I’d never been into the Tower Of London, nor ridden on the London Eye. I hadn’t been into St Paul’s or Westminster Abbey. I …
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 …
To get from Helsinki to Tallinn, I did what many people do and took the ferry across the water, a wonderful journey linking two countries. Anyone familiar with this crossing will be thinking, “but Clazz, it’s a two hour ferry. What do you mean overnight?!” Well, buckle up, because I embarked on a true Finnish …
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 …
If you’ve read my latest blog post, you’ll know that the main reason I stopped off in Stockholm was to stay at the jumbo jet hotel at Arlanda airport. But there was one reason I wanted to go into Stockholm itself: to check out as many underground metro stations as possible! You see, I didn’t …
I have been fortunate enough to have done a lot of awesome things this year – and without a doubt, one of my favourite experiences from the entire year was sleeping in a jumbo jet engine! Yes, you read that right. An engine. And you thought the robot dinosaur hotel was going to be the …
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 …
A couple of months ago (yes, I’m catching up!) we flew out to the south of France for a weekend. Our main objective, however, was not to visit France. Our main reason for this trip was to visit Monaco. Not only is it a new country for both of us, but we are both really …
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 …
Less than a month after we returned from Japan, we were off on another trip to another new country – Cyprus! This was very much a holiday to recover from our holiday, which may sound ridiculous, but Japan was so full on (in case you couldn’t tell from the fourteen blog posts that I’ve published) …
