The Night Train from Zagreb to Venice

It feels like we’ve been waiting all day for our train. Croatia has been plunged into a late-summer night, and it’s dark outside Zagreb central station’s large neoclassical windows. We’re looking forward to our beds. And, just a few minutes after our platform pops up on the notice board, our beds roll into the station. […]

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Insta Tour of Copenhagen

On my recent trip to Copenhagen I did whatever any social media-savvy city breaker would do: I took a lot of photos. Here are some of my favourites from out and about in Copenhagen, which also happen to provide a neat little tour of the city.                     […]

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Hashtag Helsingør

One of my favourite days on my trip to Denmark was my jaunt up to Helsingør to visit the castle that’s infamous for being Shakespeare’s setting for Hamlet. I’ll write another blog-post about the wonderful day I had there, but here are some pictures of something I noticed about Helsingor that made me giggle. That’s right, Helsingør tourist […]

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When Le Tour comes through town

The Tour de France is one of the biggest sports events of the year, watched by 3 billion people annually in 188 countries. 2,000 journalists from all over the world attend, and a typical year will see 12 million spectators watch it in the flesh. These are undoubtedly amazing figures*. What makes them even more […]

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Travel Plans for end of 2014

Would you believe it, all of a sudden I have ‘travel plans’. I’ve had the odd holidays and trips before, of course, and with family living abroad there’s always been a sense of adventure in just going home. But now I’m working freelance and have better flexibility with travel. No more holiday allowances, and no […]

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