Venice is one of the most unique places in Europe – but it’s also one of the busiest, with tourists descending on the sinking city in their thousands every single day. It’s a city that a lot of people don’t expect to love, and depending on your experience, your expectations could be right. Me? I …
After our Dusseldorf Disaster™, we headed over to Cologne on a short train ride that went much more smoothly than any other public transport we’d experienced in Germany. We’d only have the rest of the day in Cologne, although research told me it was small enough that we could hit up the highlights pretty quickly …
“I have really f*cked up. Oh my God… David, I have REALLY f*cked up.” “Clazz… where are we???” My friend David had brought up Google maps and was frantically zooming out. “Erm… Clazz, where is Dusseldorf??!” It was 11.30pm and we had arrived in Germany. Moments earlier, I’d been preparing to jump on a train …
Visiting Auschwitz was never going to be easy. It’s not exactly a walk in the park where you can tune out or share your deep thoughts with nature, or even a look around a museum where words can fill you with knowledge but not leave a mark on your soul. No, this was being faced …
In November, I finally visited Poland for the first time! One of our best friends wanted to go somewhere for Christmas markets, and we mused over various German destinations before I piped up that we could do something different and go to Poland. None of us had been to Poland before, and most of the …
When I met my friend in October to see her off back to Australia, we had a plan to see lots of odd places in London that we hadn’t been to before. We’ve both been to London countless times, seen all the landmarks over and over, and this visit was more about going off-beat and …
Belgium is the perfect country to explore several of its main cities in one trip – owing to its size and ease of getting around, my planned pit-stop turned into a journey through three cities which gave me a whirlwind overview of the country. After Budapest, I’d decided to come home via Belgium – due …
Budapest is famous for its thermal spa baths all over the city, but two in particular are popular with tourists: Szechenyi and Gellert. I’ve written about both briefly in my post about Budapest, as my friend and I ended up visiting both after we couldn’t choose which would be the best to visit – and …
A few months ago, I finally returned to Budapest, eight years after my first visit. Budapest very quickly became one of my favourite cities in Europe, and I was curious to see how I would find it a second time around, and whether the magic would capture me just as instantaneously as it did the …
2022 has been quite a year. What started out with a single booked trip which was cancelled on my birthday, 2022 ended up being one of our most travelled years yet (non-continuous travels, at least). I’ve been to 11 countries, which I think is my most in a single year, plus we finally ticked off …
