It’s been a really long winter. Summer is due any day and we still haven’t had spring. I began to feel a bit stir-crazy – I have a new (to me; I rescued it) tent that I really wanted to try out and the year was flying by and I still hadnt planned any camping… More A horse invaded my tent: camping in the New Forest
This book holds a record for the longest time between reading it and getting onto my Travel Library! I bought it in Exeter back in September, on my way back from my weekend on Dartmoor, devoured the first chapter eagerly on the bus… and then it took until December to actually finish it and now… More Travel Library: Epic Continent by Nicholas Jubber
It’s been ages since I last did a Chocolate Wars! I wanted to do Cypriot chocolate vs Georgian chocolate but it turns out neither have a particularly noticeable national brand. I got some Greek Lacta in Larnaca but my options in Tbilisi were Milka or Russian Alpen and so today, obviously, I’m going Swiss. Yes,… More Chocolate Wars: Greek vs Swiss chocolate
Another Lithuania post from the vault, as it were. While I never really gave Vilnius the post it deserved, Trakai has never even had a post of its own and it definitely deserves it. So this is the tale of my day out in Trakai in Lithuania all the way back in March 2011. I… More A day out at Old Trakai Castle
I’ve had a look back at some of my old posts and I think some of them deserve a re-write and I’m going to start with my trip to Lithuania, back in 2011. Wow, that was a long time ago. No wonder I’ve never blogged them as they deserve. So I’m going to start with… More A spring trip to Vilnius
This is an idea I had six or eight months ago but I didn’t have time to do it in the autumn or winter but today, at last, come and join me for my no-cruise cruise! I’m not a cruise person. I never will be. First, emetophobes and long boat journeys don’t mix. Second, I’d… More Come with me on a no-cruise cruise!
In my last post, I talked about the logistics of getting to Tbilisi without ending up arriving at 3am and how the best option for me ended up being flying into Cyprus to get a lunchtime flight into Tbilisi. And since I was arriving in the evening and leaving at lunchtime the next day, I… More A layover in Cyprus in January
It’s time for the second part of my vlog series about my trip to Georgia and this week’s is how to get to Tbilisi when there are no direct flights and all the indirect ones arrive and depart in the middle of the night. I actually only covered this subject in blog form less than… More New video: How to get to Tbilisi
It’s the last of the Georgia blogs today. At long last, I think I’ve written every word about Tbilisi and Tserovani and Mtskheta and Uplistsikhe and it’s time for something new. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing somewhere new and that you’ll consider Tbilisi if you want somewhere new and interesting to go, or if you’re… More Georgia on film
The first and hardest bit of the trip to Georgia was figuring out my flights. Georgia is not easy to get to from the UK. There are no direct flights. There are rumours of a low-cost Georgian airline launching in May and operating direct flights from Gatwick, rumours which half the creators at Traverse are gleefully… More How I got to Tbilisi