Three Days in Dominica

We didn’t know much about Dominica before we arrived for our three-day trip while travelling the…

Soufrière

Soufrière is a small town on St Lucia’s west coast, about an hour from Vieux Fort,…

Introduction to Saint Lucia

St Lucia isn’t the sort of place you’d expect someone like me to visit. However “everywhere…

The Caribbean on a Budget

The Caribbean isn’t normally noted as being a place to travel ‘on a budget’, as it…

Male City, Maldives

Even when I first heard about Maldives as a tourist destination, it was always marketed as…

Gulhi Island

So what’s it like to visit one of the Maldivian islands that isn’t a resort island?…

Maldives on a Budget

When I mentioned that I’d been to Maldives and I was going to write some blog…

Crossing the borders at Iguazu

The area around Iguazu Falls is on the border of three countries; the falls themselves are…

Visiting the Jesuit Misiones in South America

When I first looked at backpacking in South America, back in around 2012, I noticed entries…

Vienna Christmas Markets

In late Autumn 2024, I was sent by Jet2 on one of their Christmas Market breaks…

Visiting Vienna

You may remember in the summer of 2023, Jet2 sent me off on a trip to…

A Night At The Vienna State Opera

I’ve never been to the opera. In my head it was always one of those things…