By and large, I’m a solo traveller and I think it’s time I started emphasising that a bit more.
Back in the days when I could solo travel, I gravitated towards Iceland, Scandinavia and the Arctic, with occasional visits to places like the Baltic states and eastern Europe but you’ll find plenty of Paris and Switzerland and western Europe here too. Actually, my non-Wessex UK travels are here as well, so come with me to Scotland, London and a few other places around my own country.
There’s a lot going on in the centre of Budapest and along the banks of the Danube but perhaps you haven’t realised there’s also a lot going on in a much greener quieter part of the city, the huge Városliget, Budapest’s City Park. Start by taking metro line 1 northbound to Hősök tere, Heroes Square.… More How to spend a day in Városliget, Budapest’s City Park
This first thing is a bonus fact: the reason Budapest has so many thermal baths is only in part due to around a hundred atural mineral-rich hot springs. The main reason is that during the 150-ish years Budapest – or rather Buda, the city on the west bank of the Danube – was under occupation… More 8 things you need to know about Budapest thermal baths
Last week I went to Budapest and I think the best post to start with is what to do in Budapest by a local. I’m not the local but I work with someone who is not just Hungarian but born and bred in Budapest. Before I went, we sat down together and he went through… More The best things to do in Budapest – by a local
“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
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
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!)