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Europe Travel: Eight Lakes in Six Days

July 24, 2018August 13, 2018 Europe, Featured, Nature, Tourist Attraction austria, balaton, bled, bohinj, europe, Hallstatt, heviz, hungary, lake, lake bled, mondsee, Slovakia, slovenia, wolfgangsee, zlaty piesky

"What do you want to see on our trip around Europe?" I asked my friend. "Mountains, lakes, or beaches" came the reply. Lakes, it is then. Because Europe is so compact, one of the best

5 Reasons to Ride a Segway around Prague

June 28, 2015March 19, 2017 Blogging, Europe, Featured, Travelling city break, CzechRepublic, europe, prague, Segway, tour, tourism, travel, Traveller

Hands up if you think that Segway tours are a bit lame. I’ll admit that I have always been judgemental of people who take Segway tours, so when my friend suggested that we take one

Summer’s Coming, and I’m Going to Europe!

May 2, 2015May 2, 2015 Europe, Featured, Plans, Travelling berlin, copenhagen, cornwall, denmark, england, estonia, europe, germany, hamburg, prague, stockholm, summer, summer getaways, sweden, tallinn, travel, uk, united kingdom, västerås

In June, heavy monsoon rains will saturate the streets of Mumbai, so I am doing what most other foreign teachers here do—leaving India for the summer. And what better place to go than Europe? In contrast

Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Asia, Beaches, Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, History, Japan, Life in India, Life in Sweden, Literature, Nature, Photography, South America, Swedish Tourism, Top Ten, Travelling army, asia, atacama desert, aurora, bolivia, bosnia, bucharest, caribbean, chile, china, colombia, dracula, edinburgh, estonia, europe, fuji, gotland, Greece, holi, iceland, iguassu, iguazu falls, india, isle of skye, istanbul, japan, Jökulsárlón, kleftiko, lapland, machu picchu, mary king close, mostar, Mumbai, new york city, northern lights, NYC, ogmore, ogmore beach, ogmore by sea, parque tayrona, peru, qatar airways, romania, rurrenabaque, san blas, scotland, skye, sri lanka, stari most, sweden, taj mahal, tallinn, terracotta warriors, udaipur, unawatuna, valparaiso, visby, wales, waterfalls, xi'an, yamuna river, zostel

I’ve been travelling the world, on-and-off, for almost 16 years—ever since an adventurous 4 week train journey took me through Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic into Romania back in the days when

7 Great Ways To Spend Summer in Stockholm

June 21, 2014April 19, 2015 Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism best things to do in stockholm, europe, festival, fika, food, gröna lund, midsommar, rooftop, seven things to do in stockholm, skansen, spend summer in stockholm, stockholm, stockholm archipelago, stockholm tourist attractions, sweden, sweden national day, taste of stockholm, upplev mer, vaxholm, what to do in stockholm

Stockholm is a summer city; its leafy parks, rocky beaches, and swathes of Baltic water that swirl around the city’s 14 islands all seem to have been designed for long summer days where the sky

Spending 14 Hours With A Tour Guide Who Hated Me

January 12, 2014April 25, 2014 Europe, Featured, Travelling, Uncategorized BusTravel, europe, iceland, ragnar, reykjavik, tour guide, travel, unfriendly

"We were only two hours into a fourteen-hour trip. It would be a long day if we couldn’t get on with the tour guide"Looking through the windows on the left-hand side of the bus, we

What to Pack for Iceland in Winter

December 21, 2013January 6, 2014 Advice, Europe, Featured, Nature, Travelling Buff, climate, clothing, europe, Icebreaker, iceland, layers, merino, North Face, weather

There is a common saying amongst Icelanders that goes like this: ‘If you don’t like the weather in Iceland, wait 5 minutes’. The point is this: Iceland’s climate is changeable, and this makes it difficult to pack

My 5 Travel Highlights of 2013

December 15, 2013July 11, 2016 Europe, Travelling bosnia, cornwall, england, europe, glacier, iceland, isle of skye, istanbul, Jökulsárlón, lagoon, looe, mostar, scotland, skye, travel, turkey, uk

At the beginning of 2013 I had no travel plans. I had just moved to an expensive apartment in Stockholm and expected a light travel year similar to 2012. But, as is often the case

Jökulsárlón: Finding Icebergs on the Beach in Iceland

December 5, 2013April 17, 2016 Beaches, Europe, Nature, Travelling europe, glacier, iceland, Jökulsárlón, lagoon, nature, zodiac

Incredibly, I had not heard of Jökulsárlón, the glacier lagoon, until a week before I left for Iceland. Of course, I knew that Iceland is full of beautiful scenery and that there is a very

Taking a Dip in Iceland’s Blue Lagoon

November 9, 2013December 21, 2013 Europe, Nature, Travelling blue lagoon, europe, geothermal energy, health, iceland, spa

Steam rising from the milky blue water of the Blue Lagoon is probably the most iconic image of Iceland for many people. Indeed, it was one of the things that I knew I simply must

10 Foods To Try in Europe

September 28, 2013January 13, 2014 Europe, Food and Drink belgrade, bosnia, burek, cevapcici, cornish pasty, cornwall, croatia, culinary tour, europe, food, goulash, Greece, hungary, istanbul, kajmak, kleftiko, kremna rezina, lake bled, lamacun, lokum, mostar, pierogi, poland, serbia, slovenia, turkey, uk

Warning: This post will make you hungry! I had not been travelling for long before I realised that my trip would become a culinary tour of Europe, devoted mainly to trying different, and amazing, new

Boating In The Rain on Lake Bled

September 14, 2013December 21, 2013 Europe, Nature, Travelling bled, europe, lake bled, rain, slovenia, weather

In May I wrote a post outlining my intended travel plans for the summer. Stunning Lake Bled in Slovenia was to be the glittering pinnacle of my trip. It was the place that I was

Finally, a beach! Hostel Adria in Split

September 6, 2013November 3, 2013 Europe, Travelling adriatic, croatia, europe, hostel adria, ocean, sea, split, travel

After our brief and not particularly enjoyable stay in Dubrovnik, we travelled to Split. Currently there is no train that connects Dubrovnik with Split, so less than 24 hours after arriving we found ourselves back

Finding Peace And A Warm Welcome in Mostar

August 23, 2013November 3, 2013 Europe, Travelling backpacking, balkans, bosnia, europe, mostar, pension isa, travel

Pension Isa, our guesthouse in Mostar, is located in a narrow alleyway just off the main street, which is not very big itself. It is a tiny, unassuming alleyway, very easy to miss unless you

Belgrade and Sarajevo: Cities Divided by War

August 18, 2013November 3, 2013 Childhood Memories, Europe, History, Travelling balkans, belgrade, bosnia, crime, europe, fighting, horror, sarajevo, serbia, siege, sniper, war, yugoslavia

In the summer of 1992 I was a happy and carefree 13 year old. I spent long and sunny days playing with my friends. I cheered loudly when Andre Agassi beat a little-known Croatian player,

Belgrade: A Surprising Culinary Delight

August 12, 2013November 4, 2017 Europe, Food and Drink, Travelling belgrade, drinking, eating, europe, kajmak, serbia, skadarlija

After spending a few relaxing days in Timisoara, we booked a train to Belgrade - a city that we initially visited due to its convenient location en-route to Sarajevo. It was a lazy Sunday and we

The Past and Present of Timisoara: Romania’s First Free City

August 7, 2013October 15, 2015 Europe, History, Travelling ceausescu, elena, europe, nicolae, revolution, romania, timisoara, travel

Timisoara was a detour on our trip. We were travelling from Budapest to Belgrade—a direct route, but I simply couldn’t be that close to Romania—my favourite European country—without stopping by for a few days. I'm

Couchsurfing in Vienna

July 28, 2013November 3, 2013 Europe, Travelling austria, couchsurfing, europe, host, travel, vienna

It all started with a status that I put up on the Runaway Brit Facebook page. Couchsurfing: Yes or no? “Couchsurfing: Yes or No?” Before long I had received 31 comments, by far the most

MyMojoVie: The Boutique Hostel I Wish I Owned!

July 16, 2013August 23, 2013 Europe, Travelling austria, boutique, europe, hostel, mojovie, travel, vienna

One of my dreams is to own a guesthouse or a hostel, because the more I travel the more I see hostels that don’t seem to know what travellers actually want. So when I visited

Ortoköy—The City Under the Bridge

July 15, 2013August 23, 2013 Europe, Travelling asia, europe, istanbul, ortoköy, travel, turkey

As much as I enjoyed my day visiting the sights of Istanbul; it was not the Blue Mosque, the Aya Sofya, or even the Basilica Cistern that was my favourite part of Istanbul. No, by