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
I like the west of Iceland. It’s a lot more chilled than the south-west – there’s enough to keep you busy but there’s no pressure of “you need to see this, this and this before you go back!” and there’s definitely no crowds. Oh, I don’t say you won’t see a single tour bus sitting… More A cultural day in West Iceland
I didn’t exactly rave over my last Travel Library book, did I? And I’m afraid it’s pretty much more of the same today. This time I’m reading Helen Russell’s The Year of Living Danishly. Helen is a freelance writer and journalist whose husband unexpectedly got offered a job at Lego HQ. They took the plunge… More Travel Library: The Year of Living Danishly
Third in my Iceland Itinerary series is a real one, the one I plan to use next month! I haven’t been to Iceland for nearly four years and I’m very excited, and a bit nervous (I’m going on a plane!). And so this itinerary is both a blog post and me making plans. This is a week-long… More A real Iceland itinerary
Oh, this is a difficult one because quite honestly, there are so many pools, spas and springs to bathe in that the only true itinerary I could give you is to take a month and just drive all the way around Iceland, stopping everywhere. Every settlement with more than about ten people living there has a… More An Iceland itinerary for waterbabies