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Tag: Eurocamping as an Adult (2017)

Pierrefonds is a great castle | iamapolarbear.com

Pierrefonds is a great castle

June 24, 2017

While I was in France last month, we went into Paris and to Disneyland but we spent most of the time either in the pool or reading in the caravan. That particularly part of north east France is… well, there’s nothing there. It’s flat and empty and the sort of place you drive through to … More Pierrefonds is a great castle

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I don't really like Paris | iamapolarbear.com

I don’t really like Paris

June 6, 2017

This is a really difficult post to write and I’ve tried about ten times now. At the end of May, I went off in a caravan with my sister for a week. Being sixty-five miles north-east of Paris, we had to pop into Paris for a day. And while I need to write a post … More I don’t really like Paris

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Eurocamping as an adult | iamapolarbear.com

Eurocamping as an adult

May 27, 2017

When I was a kid and a teenager, I spent all of my summers on holiday with Keycamp – camping for people who don’t like camping, really. You arrive on a campsite to find your tent or caravan all ready for you to move in, fully equipped with plates and wine glasses and pillows and … More Eurocamping as an adult

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A Disney-hater's day at Disneyland Paris | iamapolarbear.com

A Disney-hater’s day at Disneyland Paris

May 23, 2017

Last week I went camping in northern France with my sister and we had to go to Disneyland Paris. This was not my choice or indeed my preference. I first went to Disneyland Paris on a school trip in the summer of 2000 when it was a novelty and also when Disney-mania was not quite … More A Disney-hater’s day at Disneyland Paris

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Who am I?
I'm Julie, a travel, adventure and wellness blogger. I love Iceland, I love jumping into hot water and I do love a bit of snow.

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The first blog of the Denmark trip is up! It’s my birthday trip to @aireancientbathsdk which isn’t necessarily a great subject for a blog and Instagram because in the pursuit of serenity and relaxation (which it achieves!) you can’t take cameras in. And I made it to the end! A reel every day! Today’s features a weird otherworldly metro station and a very nice beach (this is where you come kayaking in Copenhagen!) and then a lovely flight home (with two episodes of Farscape). Last proper day in Denmark and I finally made it to Christiania which has got the odd vibe of being free and artsy (and yeah, a bit illegally leafy) but also like there are Rules. Then I detoured slowly through Copenhagen (got lost on the way to the metro) and finished up the day with an extended session at AIRE Ancient Baths, a spa with Latin names for all its pools hiding away in the raw brickwork of the old Carlsberg factory. Oh, I needed some time in hot water! Turns out I’ve been missing that all week! Who’d have thought a graveyard would be a nice place to spend some time on an intolerably hot day in Copenhagen? The Hans Christian Andersen Experience was perhaps not something I’ll rush back to but the National Museum is quite something. Three and a half years ago, I was sitting in a bar in Denmark with an Irishman, a Norwegian and three Icelandic lawyers while they gave us a potted history of the Vikings and the relationship between Iceland and Denmark that included the phrases “Viking is a verb, not a noun” and “Denmark is our colonist”. Chunks of that conversation made it into my second book, Lava Land (look out for it in the autumn!). Today I kayaked around Copenhagen with #GreenKayak collecting litter from the canals. Oh, that one’s getting a blog post! And then I walked around Copenhagen a bit in the afternoon and the evening and filmed very little of it. This is the reason I’m in Denmark this week - not out of a desire to see Copenhagen but a desire to see a 5cm layer of fossils, sticky clay and iridium, the geological evidence of an asteroid that hit Mexico 66m years ago and caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Today I went to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens - and I went on two rollercoasters (and was only terrified of one). My main “home” on the internet is my blog, I Am A Polar Bear (link in bio) and I always say that I make the effort to keep up with Instagram partly to promote it and partly to get my face out there as a travel blogger - which I guess is one and the same thing. So why has it taken this long to occur to me that grid posts should match up with blog posts? So that’s what I’m doing from now on.

About Julie

I'm a blogger, adventurer, lover of hot water, amateur paddler and polar bear who wilts in hot weather. Time (by day, I'm a researcher) and funds keep me within Europe and I make regular trips up to the north, especially to Iceland. I like the occasional adventure across Europe by train and I'm starting to make use of my weekends for 48-hour adventures. This isn't my only creative outlet - I've written two travelogues (one on a winter adventure across the Arctic Circle and one on exploring volcanoes during a warm summer road trip around Iceland) plus a little book of Icelandic pools and I have a fourth book in progress right now.

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