If you read about travelling on the internet, and specifically about how to do more of it, time and time again you’ll run into people urging you to “just” give up your job and travel the world for a year. Can’t afford it? You can earn enough to fund a year of leisure by simply … More How to travel while working full time
You people seem to like the international chocolate tests so I’ve got a good one today. The fabulous Swedish Marabou vs the legendary Swiss Lindt. My bar of Lindt is a bar of pretty standard Excellence Extra Creamy 100g vs Marabou Milk Chocolate 250g, so the Lindt looks pretty insubstantial next to the Marabou, which … More Swedish chocolate vs Swiss chocolate
In today’s third instalment of my Useful Travel Items series, we have velvet leggings! I am a master of multiple layers for cold places. Thermals, t-shirts, shirts, jackets, fleeces, coats – I like to be warm. But it’s harder to apply the same layering principle to your legs – by the time you reach three … More Useful Travel Items: velvet leggings
Today I’m in the UK and I have a travelling companion. This is Tom: We took advantage of a beautiful day during the Christmas holidays (the first Christmas holiday I’ve had in five years). Actually, we chose the date five days in advance and the fact that it was beautiful was just us being lucky. So … More Exploring Swanage and Durlston: Tom & Julie’s Annual Adventure
Due to unemployment and a new job occupying a good chunk of the first half of this year, I haven’t been anywhere since January when I had the foresight to actually use some of the holiday I was owed from work before leaving that job. I’ve done a sailing course, been walking on Dartmoor for the … More Plans for the summer
Today’s adventure was a pretty small one – a proper pub lunch at Studland with a quick walk down to the beach and to Fort Henry. Studland is a small village and peninsula on the southern side of Poole Harbour, home to plenty of heathland, beach and a big sweeping bay bounded on the southern … More A proper pub lunch at Studland
Following on from Swedish chocolate vs Finnish chocolate, now I’m taste-testing Norwegian chocolate as well, because it’s important to know what’s the best chocolate when you’re heading off to the North Pole. These two bars have been sitting out of sight on top of a bookshelf since I got back from Svalbard about six months … More Swedish chocolate vs Norwegian chocolate
If you don’t know it, Swanage is a lovely little traditional seaside town in Dorset, almost the gateway to the Jurassic Coast and in my opinion, the best way to get there is on the Swanage Railway steam train. The Swanage Railway has an illustrious history, on the subject of which I am somewhat hazy. … More A ride on the Swanage Railway steam train
The battle of the chocolate continues. I’ve taste-tested Swedish Marabou and Finnish Karl Fazer. Now I’m trying Estonian chocolate. Estonian chocolate is called Kalev, which as far as I can tell, is named after a character in the Kalevala, which is a Finnish national epic. Estonia seems to be trying to stake a claim on it … More Estonian chocolate
I Am A Polar Bear 