Travel, outdoors & adventure blogger who loves Iceland, camping and swimming.
Let’s take a break from the ruins and antiquities and delve into the villa I stayed in in Cyprus. A villa is brand new territory for me. I admit, I’m very much not a fan of the hostel – I can’t be doing with sleeping in a loud room with a dozen loud strangers – … More A villa with a pool in Cyprus
Two blogs into my Cyprus series and you may already be getting the idea that we spent a lot of time visiting ruins. I had a guidebook and I read it before we went but somehow I never connected with the words and it took until we were there to realise how many ruins there … More The Pafos Mosaics
Post 1 in an ongoing series on my week-long trip to Cyprus! In short: I went on my first real family holiday since 2011 and my first real sun-hunting holiday ever. We stayed in a huge but echoey villa near Coral Bay with our own pool and I have a list of about ten posts … More In the Tombs of the Kings
Booking The big big thing this month is that I’ve booked my flights and accommodation! Yay! I put it off for a really long time because flights on Icelandair are getting expensive and they no longer include luggage by default. Quite frankly, I put it off because I didn’t want to hand over my money … More The Laugavegur (Prep) Diaries: part 3
AKA “What I packed for Cyprus”. This is out of my comfort zone. I’m used to cold places, I’m used to packing thermals and gloves and warm socks. The last time I packed, barely a month ago, I was packing snowboots and I spent the trip sliding on the ice. And from your perspective, I … More A cold person packs for a hot place
I’ve done Swedish chocolate vs Norwegian chocolate. I’ve done Swedish chocolate vs Finnish chocolate. I’ve done Swedish chocolate vs Swiss chocolate. And now I’m doing Swedish chocolate vs Swedish chocolate. This is Swedish chocolate from a normal shop, not from Ikea or from the airport so it’s in its traditional yellow wrapper rather than the … More Swedish chocolate vs Swedish chocolate
I’ve talked about my year abroad before – mostly in terms of the travel I did between my work and the places I went. I did a degree in French & Spanish. I don’t really speak any Spanish anymore; my French is a little better than I’d expected it to be. If you’re a normal … More How I survived studying overseas
The first time I went to Iceland, we went out looking for the Northern Lights. It was really cold and we stopped initially in the car park of a small roadhouse in the south-west, a little way west of Hella (at the junction of the Ring Road, the 26 going north-ish and the 275 going … More Weird Souvenirs: a used horseshoe
I hate packing. I will always hate packing. I packed badly for Sweden and that’s for two reasons. I started two weeks early because we were packing bags at Brownies for the World Traveller badge & I wanted to show them a real-life semi-professional bag. But because it was two weeks away and I needed … More Packing for Sweden
It’s almost always worth getting out of the centre of a big city – it’s where the people live, it’s where real life rather than tourist life happens. I went out to the Stockholm suburbs because that’s where I was staying. We did spend most of our time in central Stockholm – Esther likes playing … More Getting out into the Stockholm suburbs
I Am A Polar Bear 