travel Archives - Runaway Brit

Reinvention, Promotion, and a Whole Load of Summer Travel

Featured, Life, Relationships heartbreak, life, travel

If you have read my blog for some time, you may have noticed that I have been absent for a while. On the other hand, maybe, you have not. Either way, it has been five

Why Kathmandu Needs Tourists to Return in 2016

Advice, Asia, Featured, Travelling Durbar Square, Earthquake, Fuel Crisis, Kathmandu, nepal, tourism, travel, traveler, Traveller

“Visit Durbar Square in Kathmandu, but as there’s nothing left you shouldn’t pay the entrance fee.” This was the advice given to me by a fellow traveller during my visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. I was told

My Best Travel Moments of 2015 in Photographs

Featured, Travelling 2015, ayurveda, expat, goa, hikkaduwa, holi, holidays, india, KARE, kerala, manali, Mumbai, nepal, palolem, sri lanka, tourism, travel, traveler, Traveller, unawatuna

It’s that time of year again; the time to reflect on the year gone by, and to look forward to the year ahead. It’s a cliché to do so, but I think it is important

Copenhagen: Is it Europe’s Coolest City?

Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Nature, Travelling 7 reasons, Christiania, cool cities, coolest city in Europe, copenhagen, denmark, Nyhavn, travel

Few could disagree that Copenhagen is one of Europe’s coolest cities, if not the coolest. Somehow it manages to balance an old-world charm stemming back to childhood readings of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, with

5 Reasons to Ride a Segway around Prague

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!

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

5 Reasons to Visit Shimla

Asia, Featured, India, Life in India, Travelling 5 reasons to visit shimla, advice, himalaya, india, mountains, shimla, shopping, top five, travel, travel list

When you've lived in chaotic Mumbai for almost 8 months, trust me, you start to long for open spaces, clear air and beautiful views, so when my parents came to visit at the end of

Palolem, It’s Good to be Back!

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Life in India, Travelling beach, goa, holidays, india, palolem, tourism, travel

Generally, I prefer to travel to a new place rather than simply go back to the same destinations over and again. The only exception to this so far has been Sihanoukville, which was just too

Stick Fishermen of Sri Lanka: Fishing for Dollars

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Tradition, Travelling culture, fishing, SriLanka, stick fishing, stilt fishing, tourism, travel

There are few things more exciting than seeing an iconic view of a place that you have travelled thousands of miles to visit, whether it’s the Eiffel Tower glittering in the night sky, a decorated

Mumbai Festivals: Holi

Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Friends and Family, Life in India, Partying celebrate holi in India, colour, festival, holi, india, Mumbai, travel

Having seen numerous documentaries and vivid photographs of people covered head-to-toe in brightly coloured powder I have wanted to experience Holi for many years. Out of all India’s many,many, festivals Holi is the most colourful

How A Back Injury Made Me Reassess My Priorities

Advice, Featured, Travelling advice, back problems, diet, do it while you can, fitness, health, life, seize the day, travel

Last Friday evening I collapsed in my bathroom as I was about to take a shower. Just like that: I twisted slightly to one side and fell straight down like one of those controlled demolitions,

Let Travel Put Some Colour Into Your Winter

Advice, Featured, Travelling arctic circle, argentina, chile, colour, cornwall, iceland, india, Salar de uyuni, travel

Winter is Coming. Are you feeling it yet? That dull feeling that creeps into your soul as the days get shorter and darker. That heaviness in your spirit as the sky gets heavier and the

Should Travel Blogs Tell People Where NOT to Travel?

Advice, Blogging, Featured, Travelling advice, blogging, travel, travel blogs

Recently I have read a number of 'Ten Places Not to Visit' posts, or negative posts about a place disliked by the writer in which they explain why you shouldn't go there. Amongst others places, I

My 10 Favourite Cities In The World

Featured, Top Ten, Travelling bangkok, best cities in the world, cartagena, edinburgh, favourite cities in the world, ho chi minh city, hong kong, istanbul, new york, saigon, sarajevo, stockholm, top ten list, travel, valparaiso

Travellers are often asked what their favourite city is, so I have been thinking about my response to that question. It has taken a while to compile this list as my favourite city can change

So Long, Sweden! I’m Going To Miss You.

Europe, Featured, History, Nature, Swedish Climate, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling, Working Overseas expat, nature, snow, stockholm, sunset, sweden, travel, water

Four years ago I moved to Sweden; a country often associated with long, cold, snowy winters. But, little did I know that after the harsh winter Swedes are rewarded with beautiful summers where the sun

What to do in Skopje When It Rains

Advice, Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Photography, Travelling balkans, eating, holocaust memorial centre, kaj marsalot, macedonia, memorial house, mother teresa, old house, pastel, photography, skopje, travel

You’ve just flown 3 hours south after a long, dark and exceptionally rainy Scandinavian winter, in the hopes of finding some spring sunshine only to step off the plane into colder, greyer, and wetter weather

The Time I Didn’t Make It to Anjuna

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Humour, Travelling anjuna, fear, goa, hotel, india, stranded, travel

These were the days before the technology revolution: we had no laptops, not even a regular phone. We didn’t even have a watch between us. We were two foreign females, alone in the middle of

Life Advice From ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’

Advice, Europe, Featured, Travelling advice, greenland, iceland, life, movie, travel, walter mitty

**Warning** This post contains spoilers, so if you haven’t seen The Secret Life of Walter Mitty turn off the computer right now, go and see it, and come back later. From the first moment I

My Upcoming Summer Plans

Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Life in Sweden, Nature, Plans, Swedish Tourism, Travelling eating out, göteborg, gothenburg, gotland, kayak, macedonia, plans, restaurant, rooftop hiking, skopje, stockholm, sweden, thai food, travel, Upcoming Plans, visby

Now that the light is finally shining at the end of Sweden’s long, wintry tunnel, I am feeling the urge to climb out from under the thick duvet I have hidden under for the last

Too Afraid To Seize The Day

Asia, Teaching, Travelling, Working Overseas action, changes, expat, fear, job, life, life overseas, moving, relocating, searching, travel

This is a post that has been languishing in my drafts folder for four months. I have simply been too afraid to post it, because if I post it I have to commit to the