adventures, please.
The medieval village of Saint-Émilion is a tiny but world-renowned kind of a place, pals! Located in the Aquitaine region of South West France and a mere hop skip and a jump away from the wine capital city of the world, it was pretty much a given that as I was staying in Bordeaux anyway [...]
The beautiful city of Bordeaux, world famous producer of wines since roughly the 8th century, is perhaps one of the most elegant cities I've ever stayed in, second only to good old Paris. I ended up visiting it solo in July for the pure and simple fact that I typed my departure date from Gatwick [...]
I'm a bit late to the party here pals given that we're almost one month into the new year, but at this particular moment in time I appear to be stuck in a hotel in Hamburg with not a whole lot to do; so what better way to fill the time than a casual reflection [...]
The Château de Versailles is, let's face it, one of my most favourite places that I've ever visited. In my naivety I'd imagined that visiting it would be a bit like visiting a National Trust house back at home, and in a way it is...it is a rather large royal residence after all. But this [...]
Once upon a time, six girls and two guys (ie, myself and five friends) decided it would be a ruddy marvellous idea to go on a hen weekend in Paris, in celebration of one of my bestest pals Chris. Amongst other things, we bought with us a picnic basket, a selection of decorations for our [...]
We docked in Le Havre in Normandy every seven days, but under normal circumstances got no further than the city's pebbly beach, stopping here and there for either coffee or crepes, and one particularly adventurous day for real live snails. (Actually, they weren't alive, they were cooked in garlic butter but, you get what I'm [...]
The few times in my life that I've ever heard the words 'Paris in a day' in that particular order are when they are prefixed by the words 'It's not possible to see...' BUT my friends- where there's a will, there's a way! After spending three and a half months on a ship which docked [...]
