Transport – Diary of a Tourist

A No Fly Christmas Itinerary – 4 countries in 9 days

Christmas seems such a long time ago and this post about our Christmas holiday is long overdue. For the last few years, we have gone

Can you see Athens in two days? Is a Winter city break in Athens a good idea? The answer to both of these questions is

0835: Arrived at St Petersburg station, after the Grand Express sleeper train from Moscow. Olga, our guide from 2 days ago, came to pick us

This post is about Day 2 of our whirlwind tour of Russia. Read about Day 1, where we boarded the ferry from Helsinki to St

In my previous post, I told you about our whirlwind 72 hour trip to Russia. In this series of posts, I’ll be taking you through

“Are you sure it’s legal?” Is a question I got from a lot of people when I said I was going to Russia without a

This is Part 2 of 2 in my blog about our Grand Tour of Europe. In Part 1, I covered the first six days of

Recently I undertook a grand tour of Europe with my parents. 12 days, 6 countries, 8 cities. Here’s a quick run down of our trip.

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

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

On Day 3 of our China trip, we caught the sleeper train from Beijing to Xian. I was quite nervous about this leg of the

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

Last week, I realised a dream of many years – to visit China for the first time. It was a fast paced express trip across

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