In the latest round of “what’s the best chocolate in my eclectic collection?”, it’s time for Switzerland vs Norway, Lindt vs Freia, the battle of the two great neutral European powers. Now, this one’s going to be interesting because these are both high scorers – Lindt soundly defeated Greek Lacta back in April and drew… More Chocolate Wars: Swiss chocolate vs Norwegian chocolate
“We’re going to Italy!” we said. “OK,” our parents said. Not “No, you’re not, you’re fourteen years old,” – but we were. I was fourteen and my best friend Catherine was also fourteen and the plan we’d hatched was to fly to Italy, just the two of us, to join a raptor protection camp populated… More Two schoolchildren go unsupervised to Italy to spend a week with strangers
Now, this is a book of two halves, because for the first few chapters, I was shaking my head and going “Yet again, I’m going to have to write on my blog that I read a travel-themed book that I didn’t particularly like”. But it got better. This month’s book is also the Rebel Readers’… More Travel Library: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
I had the idea for a human itinerary, one day in Reykjavik vs a day suggested by an AI while I was watching Hannah Witton’s I Asked Chat GPT & a London Expert to Plan A Solo Day Out in London video in September and immediately wondered what I would say for a day in… More One day in Reykjavik: my itinerary vs Chat GPT’s
Over the last year or two, I’ve become a bit of a convert to solid haircare bars. Unless I’m taking my tent to Iceland, I usually go hand luggage only, which means I’m limited to 100ml bottles of liquid shampoo and conditioner and frankly, 100ml of conditioner barely touches my hair. On the other hand,… More What is the best solid conditioner bar?
It’s the Tbilisi sulphur baths video! At last! Well, this has been a long time coming! I went to Tbilisi in January – end of January, last couple of days plus the first couple of days of February and it’s ridiculous that we’re nearly two-thirds of the way through October and I only finished this video… More New video: Tbilisi sulphur baths
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)