I’ve been going to Iceland for quite a few years now and I think one of the major characteristics of Icelandic people is storytelling. This is a country where 10% of the population will have something published in their lifetime (many statistics will tell you this is a book. It’s not. “Something” covers “letters written … More The A-Z of Iceland: T for Troll Rocks
Welcome to my first Russia blog! Over the next couple of months, I’ll take you along on my journey, which I’ve been calling #JulietsRussianOdyssey on Instagram. In this post, I’m going to cover a few of the themes from the trip: where I went, the language barrier, the weather and what it was like being … More So, I went to Russia…
I go to Studland fairly irregularly. My parents like the Bankes Arms pub and I like the kayaking school and the walk up to Old Harry Rocks. The Bankes Arms is the sort of pub where the food is simple but really solid. Look at the size of this cheese ploughman’s and especially the size … More Studland’s Secrets: St Nicholas’s Church
More than ten years on, let’s have a look at my first ever solo travel trip. I was 23, which actually wasn’t as young as I felt at the time. I’d done quite a lot of travelling at university because I spent a year studying French in Switzerland and so I used all my free … More Suomenlinna: a day on Finland’s Fortress
It’s already S and there are only seven more editions of the A-Z of Iceland left after this. S is for Skaftafell. Today, Skaftafell is part of the Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður, the Vatnajökull National Park, although the first time I went there Skaftafell was a National Park in its own right. Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður covers pretty much the entire … More The A-Z of Iceland: S for Skaftafell
I’ve published two posts a week every week since at least the beginning of 2017, maybe earlier. Every week without fail. In the absence of doing any promotion, I’m finding the strategy of very regular posting works wonders for my statistics. But it’s now September 16th and I’ve spent the last three weeks in Russia. … More How I organise my blog
On Monday I told you all about my visit to Russia in 2002 – specifically the Moscow half of the trip. When we left the story, we were on the overnight train to St Petersburg. And now it’s very early in the morning and we’ve arrived in Russia’s second city. No one’s really slept much, … More Russia 2002: St Petersburg
While I’m in Russia in 2019, let me tell you about my first ever trip there. It was March 2002, I was sixteen and it was a school trip. I went to a very ordinary school and speaking to people around my age, it appears several local schools did pretty much exactly the same trip … More Russia 2002: Moscow
Iceland is a small country in the North Atlantic, where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge peeks out from above the waves. It’s a constructive plate boundary, which means it’s where two tectonic plates (the North American plate and the Eurasian plate) are pulling apart from each other. This leaves a big hole in the Earth’s crust and … More The A-Z of Iceland: R for Renewable Energy
Two years ago I wrote Fringe 101, or, “how to Edinburgh” and now we’re going for lesson two: what to pack. Comfortable walking shoes Yes, it’s a festival. That doesn’t flatten out a city built on a volcano nor does it smooth the cobbles. A huge part of the Fringe is off the bus and tram … More EdFringe 102: Packing essentials
I Am A Polar Bear 