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.
Iceland is not really a land of ice. It’s a land of waterfalls and waterfall fatigue can set in very easily. So I’ve gone through all the ones I’ve visited and come up with a top ten of waterfalls in Iceland you should visit and why. 10: Faxafoss (Mane Falls) Faxafoss is a waterfall you can… More Top Ten Waterfalls in Iceland
I took the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Scotland the other day. Having decided I was going to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (hereafter called simply “Edinburgh”; sorry) this year, there came the subject of how to get there. It’s 430 miles, mostly on motorway and I bet there wouldn’t be anywhere to park, so that’s… More The Caledonian Sleeper
I like to climb a mountain when I’m in Iceland in the summer and although, technically, that didn’t really happen this year (I was kind of slightly really ill the whole time and just didn’t have the energy; plus, there aren’t that many handy climbable mountains in the east), I did find Hengifoss, a nice… More Hengifoss
Do you want to take photos of the Northern Lights? Do you not know one end of a camera from the other? I am not a photographer. I make no claim to be. If you are one, or you are learning to be one, or you own one of the massive, expensive, complicated cameras that… More How to photograph the Northern Lights for non-photographers
Before I went to Estonia, I think my impression of it was some kind of utopia with a bad history of being stolen. Now I’m back, I’m not entirely sure that’s inaccurate. I stayed in Tallinn Old Town and I had a lot of thoughts and learned a lot. From what I’ve read, Estonia has… More Tallinn Old Town
Last week I went to Estonia for what worked out to be little more than a long weekend – late-ish flight out on Thursday plus early flight home on Monday effectively shrank it from five days to three. And there are plenty of post coming on the subject of Estonia but the first, and most… More Estonia: my apartment in Tallinn