Pula is a port city in northern Croatia, on the southern tip of the Istrian peninsula. It’s a world away from bustling Dubrovnik – it was a Roman city and still has plenty of very visible evidence of that. The entire region is bilingual, noticeable on the road signs the moment you leave the airport, … More How to spend 24 hours in Pula, Croatia
Packing for Pula was a difficult task: what’s the weather like in April (changeable!), what am I going to need, what am I going to want and what am I going to do? I had the luxury of a big bag despite my easyJet flight – by which I mean cabin bag, not hold bag, … More What I packed for four days in Pula, Croatia in April
The second part of the Switzerland 2014 post to get rewritten, because the photos had broken, is our day trip to Our Chalet. Quick recap: this is a Girlguiding trip; it’s a county adults trip with no selection process other than being the first twelve or so to send a deposit and we went to … More Switzerland 2014: Our Chalet
For reasons that might become clearer later in the month, I was looking at my old Switzerland posts the other day and discovered that all the photos had broken in the first two posts from our county trip in 2014. So rather than just repair the photos, I thought I’d rewrite them altogether because it’s … More Switzerland 2014: Anita’s B&B
You know the drill by now. I like 35mm film and I often take a film camera with me when I travel and then come back with a selection of 90s-style photos of dubious quality which I just really enjoy. But on this trip, I had something even more fun. You see, back in 2003, … More Great German Spa Towns on film
The last stop on my adventure around the UNESCO Great German Spa Towns was Bad Ems, which is only a short train trip from Koblenz (when the line is open, which it wasn’t when I was there). Unfortunately, I was coming from Bad Kissingen and that meant five trains and a rail replacement bus, taking … More Bad Ems is lovely but it’s very quiet in winter
When I booked my UNESCO Great European Spa Towns of Germany trip, I didn’t really know anything about any of the towns I was visiting. If UNESCO thought they were great, that was good enough for me. I made my lists of their spas, I found somewhere to stay, I figured out how to get … More Leisure in Bad Kissingen
Baden-Baden is a well-known spa town. It’s almost the ubiquitous spa town. Does it do anything else? Does it have any other claim to fame? So when I started writing my Bath Book, a travelogue of some kind about hot water, steam and bathing culture, Baden-Baden was the first place to come to mind. But … More Is Baden-Baden past its best?
In the last four posts, I’ve talked about the four spas I visited on my train adventure around Germany’s UNESCO Great European Spa Towns and now it’s time to talk about the journeys between them – because visiting those four spas required thirteen trains, four buses and three trips to Frankfurt. A few years ago, … More Germany’s Great European Spa Towns by 13 trains and 4 buses
The last of the four spas I visited on my Great German Spa Towns trip and let’s get the spoiler out of the way early – it was probably my favourite. Bad Ems is a tiny place that doesn’t instinctively feel like the place to put an interesting spa with a unique feature but it … More I tried Emser Therme’s naked riverside sauna
I Am A Polar Bear 