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) …
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 …
There are countless city destinations all over Europe, and it feels like we have visited loads this year – and to my surprise, one that I loved more than most has been Gdansk. “Where?” my colleague asked, before promptly booking a flight to join us on the trip. It’s in Poland, by the way. This …
There are plenty of islands to explore in the Orkney archipelago, from the islands to the south which are connected by road, to the varied North Isles with sandy beaches and cliffs full of puffins, or the island of Rousay which has so much history it’s been nicknamed the “Egypt Of The North”. However, if …
When I decided, after a lot of contemplation, to visit Marmaris for the day from Rhodes, I honestly wasn’t sure how enjoyable it was going to be. Did I really want my first experience of Turkey to be of a tacky resort town, packed with hotels and cheap tourist tat aimed towards people who couldn’t …
The main point of flying to Venice wasn’t to visit Italy at all, despite that becoming the bulk of the trip – it was to finally visit the neighbouring country of Slovenia, somewhere that has been on my list for years. It seemed a bit silly, then, to barely be spending three days in the …
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 …
