A full time engineer, a part time blogger and a lifelong tourist
0730: We were awoken by the gentle rocking of the Grand Express as is rushed past the suburbs of Moscow. The train guard brought 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.
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
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