adventures, please.
What a place this is, you guys!! Antigua and Barbuda is part of the British Commonwealth, with old Queen Liz as head of state, but with its own Prime Minister who governs the islands independently of the UK. Like almost every Caribbean state or nation, its history is completely intertwined with the slave trade, and [...]
The town of Trogir is located on the historic Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, not too far from Split (and in actual fact, closer to Split airport than Split itself is), and although it's a place I'd never heard of until I arrived in the beautiful Balkan country, I was so glad that we decided to [...]
For the last couple of years, I've spent several months a year living and working in the German city of Hamburg; and despite the fact that collectively those months add up to a significant amount of time, until this Autumn I'd never actually seen anywhere else in the whole of Germany. Which is pretty ridiculous, [...]
For about five years, it had been my dream to go to Costa Rica, for several reasons. Firstly, because to me it seemed like the happiest country on the planet, with no army since it was abolished in 1949- instead diverting all the funds to healthcare and education, secondly because it seemed like such a [...]
Norway is an absolutely beautiful country, and after spending several months working on a cruise ship that sailed up and down the Norwegian coast and into several of its fjords, I really got to know several of the country's cities, towns and villages in a way that your average cruise passenger never will. From olde [...]
The small city of Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe is a beautiful, brightly coloured riot of colour, filled with amazing smells and sounds to match. As an overseas territory of France, the culture here is a mixture of French and Caribbean, and when I began tentatively winding my way up and down the quiet streets of the [...]
We finally made it to Croatia a whole 24 hours later than we'd previously expected, due to a ginormous thunderstorm that had been rumbling all over Europe, and when our plane glided down over the bright Mediterranean Sea and touched down at long last at Split airport, I heard my pal Rachel sitting in the [...]
