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
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 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
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
It’s just too easy to title this “Art on the T-bana” or something along those lines. But it’s true, some of the stations on Stockholm’s metro system, the Tunnelbana or T-bana, are indeed works of art. I didn’t notice them at first. The green line, which I used on my first couple of days, is … More Cave paintings in the Stockholm metro
Without my native guide (read: best friend from school who moved there last spring), I would have totally overlooked Skansen. It was certainly mentioned in my guidebook but it wouldn’t have caught my attention and even if it had, I probably wouldn’t have gone there. But Esther, who has three children under ten, has a … More I saw a moose in central Stockholm!
The night before I went to Stockholm, I stayed in a purple pod in Gatwick. It’s called Yotel (and I’m not sponsored; I’m just surprised more people don’t know about it). It’s a chain, with hotels in Gatwick, Heathrow, Paris CDG, Amsterdam Schiphol, Singapore, Boston & New York. I’ve only stayed in the Gatwick one. … More Staying in Gatwick’s purple pods
I’ve wanted to write this post for years. It makes a relatively big impact on my life – and definitely on my relationships with people. Hi. I’m Juliet and I have an eating disorder. It’s not anorexia or bulimia or one of the ones with names. If it had a name, life would be so … More How to travel with an eating disorder
I Am A Polar Bear 