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.
Two years ago I wrote Fringe 101, or, “how to Edinburgh” and now we’re going for lesson two: what to pack. Comfortable walking shoes Yes, it’s a festival. That doesn’t flatten out a city built on a volcano nor does it smooth the cobbles. A huge part of the Fringe is off the bus and tram… More EdFringe 102: Packing essentials
I’m doing two weekends at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. The first is actually the second; that’s the one when I’m seeing all the shows I wanted to see. The second weekend is actually the first; it’s the overflow for all the other shows I wanted to see. Yes, it’s ridiculous to have the overflow… More EdFringe 2019: attempt 1 – the catastrophe
I don’t think I mention it here on this blog as often as I could but I’m a big fan of live comedy. It’s the reason I go up to Edinburgh in Augusts some/most years. I’m not going to review everything I saw this year because over the course of two weekends I saw 22… More EdFringe 2019 Review: Lucy Porter – Be Prepared
Welcome to my Malta travel budget post. I don’t generally talk about money here. I’m British, it’s not done. Besides, the usual subject is “how to make money from travelling and/or blogging!” I don’t know that. I have a 9-5 (well, two days a week it’s 8:30-4:30 which is never confusing to my body clock… More How to go to Malta with less than £200: my Malta travel budget
You wouldn’t think there’s much link between travel, adventures and body image, necessarily. Or at least, not within the improvement of relationships between body and image. I tend to credit Iceland for my lack of bodily self-hate. In a world where you’re always the wrong shape and size, it’s quite refreshing to share the Obligatory… More Travel, adventures, and body image
I may have given the impression in my previous two posts on my short trip to Rome that I don’t particularly care for the Eternal City. Is that true? Kind of. I’ve never really been interested in Rome. Italy doesn’t really work for, it’s too hot and I’ve never felt any desire to shunt it… More Rome – what I thought of the other places
I went to Rome specifically to see the Sistine Chapel and having accomplished that, I didn’t really have much interest in the rest of Rome. But the Colosseum was only two stops up from my villa on the metro, or half a dozen tram stops so I thought I’d pop up and see it. What… More The colossal Colosseum by rain and night
At the weekend, I went to Rome. I booked the flights on the morning of April 16th – that’s the morning after the Notre Dame fire, because that Monday evening I realised that those huge historic permanent monuments that are part of our very existence are not as permanent as I thought. The Sistine Chapel… More On the Ceiling: I went to the Sistine Chapel
Ever since I first saw the Hurtigruten, Norway’s “Express Route” ferries-slash-cruise ships in Trondheim in May 2011, I wanted to travel on them. However, boats and emetophobia don’t go all that well together and I put it off for a few years until very suddenly, in December 2015, I suddenly saw a way to do… More The Hurtigruten: The most beautiful ferry/cruise ever
I didn’t do much research before going off to Malta. It came up pretty suddenly – I only booked the flights about ten days before I went and there was quite a lot going on in early January so I didn’t do a lot of research which meant that a few things caught me by… More Things that surprised me about Malta