Perhaps this should be a post about all the cosy things you can do in autumn in London – kicking red-gold leaves, PSLs in old-fashioned pubs with open fires, where to buy brown and orange knitwear or hand-made candles… but that’s not what autumn in the UK looks like. Autumn in London is grey and… More 3 days in London in October
In part 1, I told you what the Rebel Badge Club is and what Rebel Summer Camp is all about so if you don’t know, you can go and read that. In the meantime, I’m jumping straight into part 2, Sunday and Monday. Greta 2’s first scheduled activity at 9.30am was board games. I’m not… More Rebel Summer Camp part 2: Sunday and Monday
Let’s talk about the other big exciting thing I did this summer: I went to Rebel Summer Camp 2024! I didn’t go last year; it was a lot of money and I had doubts about whether a single person can put on an event of that scale. For context, it’s about the same price as… More Rebel Summer Camp part 1: Friday and Saturday
And at last it’s going home day! The reality of this trip was almost as long as the blog posts about it – by the time I woke up in Warsaw on that last morning, to the first rain I’d seen since my first day in Berlin, it all felt so long ago I could… More Eras Train Tour: Monday in Warsaw – the end of an Era(s)
It is now October and this journey started in July and I’m still writing about it! Twice a week blogs mean eleven-day trips take a while, I guess. But it’s my last full day! It’s the day after I finally went to the Eras tour and I started it late and lazy with a quest… More Eras Train Tour: Sunday in Warsaw
This has been on my to-read pile for a while and finally I decided it was going to come off that list and get read. The subtitle for it is “sea kayaking the Shipping Forecast” and now I’m helping at the boathouse, I’m taking more interest in sea kayaking, which is why this caught my… More Travel Library: Moderate Becoming Good Later by Toby and Katie Carr
Has anyone ever pitched Greece and Finland against each other? Well, I’m about to! Are there any two countries in the same continent so very opposed? Finland is cold and the people are so very sisukas and reserved and Greece is hot and the people – so I’ve heard because I’ve never been there – are quite… More Chocolate Wars: Greek vs Finnish chocolate
By Saturday, after eight days on the go, I was kind of tired. My hotel was too hot, I’d glimpsed four cities over the last week and today I was finally going to see Taylor Swift, after possessing an Eras tour ticket for nearly thirteen months. I could have quite happily stayed home. But I… More Eras Train Tour: Saturday in Warsaw (and ERAS!)
I woke up on my last morning of train travel across Poland with a sort of sense of regret – not that I regretted finally reaching Warsaw on my eighth day of this adventure, but that I didn’t have longer in the really nice hotel room in Łódź! After the tiny apartment with unreliable water… More Eras Train Tour: Lodz to Warsaw
It’s now Thursday and I’m about to move on to my penultimate city! I woke up in Wrocław to find the water was off in my apartment. I had a day and a half of plates and glasses to wash, which is no problem – ten minutes in the sink, except there’s no water! That’s… More Eras Train Tour: Wroclaw to Lodz