The most exciting moment of my entire Russia trip was on my penultimate evening when I walked up the Kremlevskiy Prospekt slope from the north-west corner of Red Square and saw that iconic view laid out before me. I was in Moscow twice. I spent three full days there are the beginning of the trip… More The labyrinth cathedral, the dead man and the legs
Last week I told you that I went to Russia and today we start the blogs in earnest. I currently have plans for 15-20 of them over the next four months – I did quite a lot while I was out there. So, day one, city one – welcome to Moscow! I arrived late afternoon… More Exploring the Moscow metro
I’ve been going to Iceland for quite a few years now and I think one of the major characteristics of Icelandic people is storytelling. This is a country where 10% of the population will have something published in their lifetime (many statistics will tell you this is a book. It’s not. “Something” covers “letters written… More The A-Z of Iceland: T for Troll Rocks
Welcome to my first Russia blog! Over the next couple of months, I’ll take you along on my journey, which I’ve been calling #JulietsRussianOdyssey on Instagram. In this post, I’m going to cover a few of the themes from the trip: where I went, the language barrier, the weather and what it was like being… More So, I went to Russia…
I go to Studland fairly irregularly. My parents like the Bankes Arms pub and I like the kayaking school and the walk up to Old Harry Rocks. The Bankes Arms is the sort of pub where the food is simple but really solid. Look at the size of this cheese ploughman’s and especially the size… More Studland’s Secrets: St Nicholas’s Church
More than ten years on, let’s have a look at my first ever solo travel trip. I was 23, which actually wasn’t as young as I felt at the time. I’d done quite a lot of travelling at university because I spent a year studying French in Switzerland and so I used all my free… More Suomenlinna: a day on Finland’s Fortress
It’s already S and there are only seven more editions of the A-Z of Iceland left after this. S is for Skaftafell. Today, Skaftafell is part of the Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður, the Vatnajökull National Park, although the first time I went there Skaftafell was a National Park in its own right. Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður covers pretty much the entire… More The A-Z of Iceland: S for Skaftafell
I’ve published two posts a week every week since at least the beginning of 2017, maybe earlier. Every week without fail. In the absence of doing any promotion, I’m finding the strategy of very regular posting works wonders for my statistics. But it’s now September 16th and I’ve spent the last three weeks in Russia.… More How I organise my blog
On Monday I told you all about my visit to Russia in 2002 – specifically the Moscow half of the trip. When we left the story, we were on the overnight train to St Petersburg. And now it’s very early in the morning and we’ve arrived in Russia’s second city. No one’s really slept much,… More Russia 2002: St Petersburg
While I’m in Russia in 2019, let me tell you about my first ever trip there. It was March 2002, I was sixteen and it was a school trip. I went to a very ordinary school and speaking to people around my age, it appears several local schools did pretty much exactly the same trip… More Russia 2002: Moscow