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 …
We weren’t originally meant to go to Warsaw. Our plan was to visit Gdansk for a weekend, but a few weeks before the trip our flight home got cancelled and we were moved to a flight the next day instead. Unfortunately this meant we had to book the day off work, for a lunchtime flight …
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 …
On our recent trip to Norway, one of the absolute highlights was getting to spend a night in Flam. Most people will visit Flam on a day trip, if that – taking the cruise round from Gudvangen, and taking the famous Flam railway to and/or from the town, with little time in between the journeys. …
We recently spent an incredible week in Norway, a country that has been on my list for most of my life, and virtually at the top of that list for several years now. It’s really hard to know where to start with Norway, because there are so many phenomenal places that are guaranteed to blow …
We’ve just returned from a trip to Norway! This trip has been in the making for years, so I’m thrilled to say it was worth the wait – but I thought I’d start by addressing the big question everyone has about Norway: just how expensive is it? And how the hell do you save money? …
