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Tallinn: Things to do Outside the Old Town

For many visitors to Tallinn, the fairy tale old town is the main attraction. But if you have more than a couple of days in

We visited Tallinn in December 2016, so this post has been 18 months in the making. We spent 4 days in Tallinn and got the

“Bit like driving on the moon this, isn’t it?” said my husband. Although neither of us have been to the moon, I had to agree. We

Our recent road trip to Scotland took us to some of the most beautiful parts of the British Isles: Lochness, the Isle of Skye and

When I visited Krakow briefly early this year, I wanted to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Wieliczka Salt Mine, but I only had one day to

Welcome to my page on the Best Places to Eat and Drink in Birmingham. Over the last decade or so, Birmingham has developed a name

In the previous couple of weeks, I looked at how best to visit China for the first time, and a one week itinerary. In this,

When I told people my first trip to China is only for week, they all asked the same thing. Is one week really enough to

I have never written a post about somewhere I only spent 20 minutes, but I guess there is a first time for everything. I wanted

Before my first visit to China last year, I did a lot of research. In this series of posts, I hope to share what I

It was our last day in China and we were approaching the end of our express trip across Beijing (Days 1, 2, 3), Xian (Days

It was our sixth and penultimate day in China and our first (and last) full day in Shanghai. (Read about Day 1, Day 2, Day

On Day 3 of our China trip, we caught the sleeper train from Beijing to Xian. I was quite nervous before we started the journey

It was Day 5 of our 7 day trip to China (Read about Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4). Today, we are

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