When you travel, even part-time, you kind of feel like you have to be positive about everything. Everything has to be the most beautiful, the most amazing, the most awesome. Fortunately, that’s pretty easy because everything in Iceland is amazing and everything about north Norway is amazing and everything north of the Arctic Circle is… More I didn’t like Bucharest
I’ve done two posts about my short trip to Tromsø back in February – one about searching for the Northern Lights and one about going out snowshoeing. This post is about my trip up the cable car. Tromsø is over two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. This means the days can be short or… More Tromsø 2017: the cable car
I went to Bern, very briefly, as a student during my year abroad. I remember virtually nothing except that it was a hot day. While staying in Grindelwald recently, it seemed like the ideal choice for a day out – less than an hour from Interlaken, one of the big cities and it fitted the… More In which I meet the Bears of Bern
I should start by clarifying that this post is not sponsored in any way. I bought the bags myself because I like them, except the one I requested as a Christmas present. And I should also clarify that their full name is the Mountain Equipment Wet & Dry Kit Bag. I really like these bags.… More Useful Travel Items: Wet & Dry Kit Bags
One of the things I hear most often (heard most often; it drops off when you reach your thirties and people have had seven or eight years to get used to it) as a person travelling alone in possession of both an X and a Y chromosome is You’re so brave! And of course, as… More Travel tips: travelling as a solo female
I’m going back to work on Mondays from next Monday, having worked Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday since Christmas, so I celebrated my last long weekend with a quick trip away. Prices for flights and accommodation to/in Iceland remaining obstinately high despite me checking two or three times a day, I resorted to looking at various local-ish airports on… More Another look at Kleine Scheidegg