If you read my Chernobyl part 1 blog, you’ll know a little about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and its background. If you didn’t, go & read it before you carry on with this one. Short primer: 32 years ago, its nuclear reactor exploded. Consequences were as bad as you might expect. Tourists can now go … More A day in the radiation zone: Chernobyl, part 2
This time last week I was falling asleep at work because I only got home from Ukraine in the early hours of Monday morning. And one of the things I did while I was over there was a day trip into the Chernobyl radiation zone. If the name Chernobyl doesn’t mean much to you, it … More A day in the radiation zone: Chernobyl, part 1
Wednesday is Halloween so let’s go back to Halloween four years ago. I was in Rovaniemi, in northern Finland. I’d spent the day in town, wandering along the river because everything was blue and white and silver and frozen and yes, I nearly died of hypothermia. Although in hindsight, having survived a white-out blizzard in … More Fortune telling in Finland
I spent most of my week in Cyprus beside, and occasionally in, the sea. None of these trips really merits a post of its own but I thought some of the pictures could go together nicely in my monthly photoset. Picture the scene: the sky is blue and the Mediterranean is blue and clear and perfect. … More Photoset: Cyprus seascapes
I am not really a reptile fan. I love furry animals like dogs and cats and rabbits, I adore goats and cows and I like giraffes and camels and rhinos and so on. I am very fond of having a miniature house-spider running over my hands and am sufficiently tolerant of larger house-spiders to be the … More I saw so many lizards in Cyprus!
I’ve already written about the Tombs of the Kings and the Pafos Mosaics but we spent a lot of time visiting Roman ruins. Family Frost is not really one for sitting on the beach turning red. We’re not really big on culture either but there doesn’t seem to be much of a third option in … More Photoset: Roman ruins in Cyprus
Let’s take a break from the ruins and antiquities and delve into the villa I stayed in in Cyprus. A villa is brand new territory for me. I admit, I’m very much not a fan of the hostel – I can’t be doing with sleeping in a loud room with a dozen loud strangers – … More A villa with a pool in Cyprus
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 Am A Polar Bear 