adventures, please.
The day before I arrived in Marseille, two buildings collapsed. The townhouses had been on the brink of tumbling down for years, but there's no real guidelines from the government here about what makes a structure 'liveable,' and it's estimated that around 40,000 of the city's residential buildings are unsafe or unfit to live in. [...]
I had no idea that Ferrol even existed until the day the cruise ship I was working on docked here. (Surprise!!) Situated in the North West of Spain on the country's Galician coast, this isn't a city that people tend to head to for a beach or city break, despite the fact that the surrounding [...]
Pinterest, Instagram and the internet in general had all filled me in on the wonders of Krka National Park in Croatia. You might have seen the pictures yourself. Beautiful waterfalls cascading into a splendiferously turquoise lake, water twinkling in the sunshine, surrounded by dense woodland. And the internet has not lied about this, because all [...]
Tuscany is famous for its rolling hills, scenic views and quaint villages, but there are also some real treasures to be found in the form of the region's Medieval and Renaissance cities; the most famous of these being Florence and Pisa. Obviously these are both beautiful places to visit...but tell me pals, did you ever [...]
Hands up who else remembers the days of telephone boxes!? In England these red-painted booths are iconic, and as an almost thirty-year-old I look back with a fond nostalgia to the days of scrabbling around for 20p to make a call before you got the bus home from school. Ah, the good old days, when [...]
I was rather on the sad side when I realised that the day we docked in Tuscany would be a very chilly one. I'd wanted to go to Florence for months since we'd begun docking regularly at its closest port city of Livorno, but work timings had always prevented me from getting too far away [...]
Let's face it pals, honesty is definitely the best policy, and so in the name of this policy I will tell you now: Paphos was a place that I wasn't expecting to appreciate. Despite the fact that I was very much up for visiting the rest of Cyprus, the reputation of this little city is [...]
From just about any spot in the French city of Marseille, it's possible to spot the silhouette of Notre-Dame de la Garde, sitting nobly on an extremely high limestone hill like a lighthouse that can see equally as far out across the sea as back inland to the spread-out city below and mountains of Provence [...]
