Fourteen years ago this week I was on my first ever solo trip. Well – that kind of depends on your definition. I’d done the trip to Italy a good few years ago; it wasn’t solo but my only companion was another fourteen-year-old, and I’d spent a year living in Switzerland and travelling around in … More My first solo trip: Helsinki 2008

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