A Chip Shop in Poznan by Ben Aitken has been sitting on my bookshelf for probably more years than I care to think about it. It’s always my “I’ll read that one next” before I find myself picking up something else. Turns out that was fate staying my hand because when I realised my Eras … More Travel Library: A Chip Shop in Poznan by Ben Aitken
Keeping up the theme of the last few (and next few) weeks, this month’s chocolate contest is between Germany and Poland (yes, I’m renaming it for this month). Actually, I did really badly at buying chocolate while I was away. I mostly lived off Milka. The German Ritter for this post came from Lidl and … More Chocolate Contests: German vs Polish chocolate
If you’ve been following the tale of my Eras Train Tour – London to Warsaw by train – you’ll know by now that I’m in Berlin. I was going to do a post per day following my eleven-day journey but a couple of things in Berlin demanded their own post so this is a roundup … More Eras Train Tour: Saturday in Berlin
By Sunday evening, I was supposed to be packing up to move to Poland after a quick weekend in Berlin. But I felt kind of unsatisfied, like I was missing something in Berlin. Well, I was – I would have liked to see Brandenburg Gate without all the fences and portacabins blocking my view. I … More Eras Train Tour: Liquidrom, Berlin’s spa that thinks it’s a techno club
My parents love Berlin but it’s never appealed. That’s more a lack of a positive feeling than the presence of a negative one. I knew I’d get there one day but it wasn’t sitting there glowing, going “gotta see me, come see me” like some places do. But when I planned my train trip from … More Eras Train Tour: Badeschiff, Berlin’s floating pool
This is the first part of a series that’s going to go on for quite a bit – I’m just back from what I’m calling the Eras Train Tour and I have so much to write about! In short, I went to see Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Warsaw and decided to go by train … More Eras Train Tour: London to Berlin by train in one day
Grábrók is one of my favourite attractions in a country full of incredible things to see and do, and I can’t quite believe I’ve never written about it before. Technically Grábrók is “they”, not “it”. “It” is a little cluster of moss-streaked red craters beside the Ring Road: Stóra Grábrók (Big Grábrók), Litla Grábrók (Little … More Roadside Volcanoes: Grábrók
I said at the beginning of the year that I was going to work through some gaps and one particularly egregious gap is Hverir, the geothermal area at Mývatn. I love Mývatn. You can never run out of interesting geothermal or volcanic things to see and do, and one particularly popular spot is Hverir. Hverir … More Hverir: geothermal area or another planet?
I know, you’re a traveller, not a tourist, you don’t want to go on tours or be shown things by a guide, you’re independent and you’re smart and you don’t want to be a sheep and just go where everyone else goes. But I’d still like to tell you why you should use a tour … More Why you should use a tour guide
This wasn’t my original plan for my July book but the one I’d planned to read sounded like even its own author hadn’t enjoyed it so off I went to the Kindle shop where I came across I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol. It’s the tale of a woman in her 40s … More Travel Library: I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol
I Am A Polar Bear 