When planning a trip to Japan, it’s easy to get overwhelmed as there are just so many cool destinations in the country, and it’s so far-flung for many of us that you really feel like you need to make the most of it. We planned our trip to Japan meticulously so that we would see …
Guess what, everybody – WE FINALLY MADE IT TO JAPAN!!! Four years after we were originally due to fly out, we finally landed in the one bucket-list destination that kept trying to get away from us! It goes without saying that Japan lived up to every hype. It’s incredible in so many different ways to …
There are many places around the UK that I have completely overlooked. It’s not that I don’t want to spend time in my home country – far from it; look at how much I explore Scotland. But truthfully, it takes time to explore the UK. Cornwall is a nine hour drive from us, and we …
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 …
Years and years ago, I read about Geldrop and how this completely unassuming Dutch town just outside Eindhoven had named an entire estate of street names after Tolkien characters. In fact, when I changed my “bucket list” page to a “wanderlist” page (a list of things I wanted to do that don’t necessarily make “bucket …
My colleague, at one point on our many hikes last year, mentioned how much she’d like to visit Efteling, a theme park in the Netherlands. Despite my knowledge being limited to snippets of stories of Ash’s childhood visits there when his Dad was stationed in Germany, I said I’d be up for it, and Ash …
I had a wonderful time in Riga recently, but there’s a story I need to tell before I delve into what I loved about our trip to this Baltic city. Riga was my final trip of 2023, and I spent the weekend wandering through Christmas markets, playing with bunnies, eating pelmeni dumplings, drinking out of …
It’s almost a year since we visited south-west Scotland, a region dramatically overlooked by visitors, ourselves included – that is, until last year. We decided to visit Dumfries & Galloway and Ayrshire the weekend after Burns night, celebrated all over Scotland on the 25th January, which seemed apt and it meant we based our whole …
After the madness of 2022, I think 2023 needed to be a quieter year. Anyone who knows me will be well aware that that’s a challenge for me, and you will soon find out that I failed the challenge exceptionally. From having a couple of trips planned throughout the year, to suddenly having loads of …
