When most people think of Greece, particularly when it comes to travelling all over it, the classic image is of island-hopping on turquoise seas and skipping down alleyways of whitewashed buildings. But what about a Greece road trip? Where can you even drive to in mainland Greece?? When we first came up with the idea… Continue reading A Greece Road Trip : Discovering the Peloponnese and Beyond
I'm a bit late to the party here, 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 on… Continue reading A Rather Late Round-Up of 2017
How to spend one day in Reykjavik. A guide for the curious cruise ship explorers and the arriving in Reykjavik-but-heading-out-ASAPers. I watched a film a few days before we arrived in Reykjavik this Summer, and that film was called 'Bokeh.' You might have heard of it. Although you probs haven't. It's rather a low budget… Continue reading One Day in Reykjavik
Most people head straight for Amsterdam when they take a trip to The Netherlands, which is understandable- it's an awesome old city with a tonne of stuff to see and do and which is famous round the whole world. (For various reasons, know what I'm saying? Wink wink, nudge nudge and all that) But Rotterdam… Continue reading What to do in Rotterdam (or, oh my days that is one full on cool city)
Bruges (or Brugge, if you want to get Belgian about it), is the epitome of a fairytale city. When I first stepped off of the train from Zeebrugge, into the winding cobbled lanes, I had a strong suspicion that we were actually in Duloc (you know, the town out of Shrek). It almost seemed too… Continue reading One Day in Bruges
So here it is, you guys: the beginning of the America trip, in all its glory. Neither me nor my boyfriend had even been on a long haul flight before. Yet there we were, planning three months in America without much of an idea of a route- other than that we were starting in Los… Continue reading Journey to L.A. : Saying Howdy to the US Border Control
Part two of my adventures teaching English in Italy: San Lorenzo in Le Marche. If you need to catch up on part one, here it is in all its bloggy glory. I may have been the one doing all the teaching, but here are all the lessons I learnt along the way. 1. What it… Continue reading Teaching English in Italy • San Lorenzo, Le Marche
