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Glasgow Smiles Better
See, I grew up in Liverpool in the 1980s. Hard times in a rough city; it had a dubious reputation…
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Travelling Even Lighter – Backpacking With As Little As Possible
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about how I tend to travel light – with only…
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Mines and Stones – The Hidden Derbyshire
As you know, I live near Derbyshire and I’m more than happy to wax lyrical about the Peak District on…
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Ripon: Cathedrals and Unicorns
Most tourists to the UK visit the same places; London, Oxford, Canterbury, the Lake District, and, for some reason I’ve…
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Geordie Shore
If you were asked to list the nicest beaches in Europe, you’d probably stick with the Med, the west coast…
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Leicester – yes, I didn’t know a lot about it either …
Leicester. One of those British cities (and I class Bristol in the same category) which to me … just ‘exist’.…
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More Than Coal – An Overview Of South Yorkshire
See, South Yorkshire has a reputation. It’s not necessarily a *bad* reputation (we’re not dealing with a Luton here), just…
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If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belg…oh, hang on…
Luxembourg isn’t a country I knew that much about, in all honesty, before I realised it was convenient as a…
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Put Some Clothes On! – Street Art In Brussels
Brussels is full of public art, and in fact walking around the city exploring it is one of the best…
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Brussels – Europe Central
Belgium is a very odd, quirky, ‘off-the-wall’ country. The whole place has the feel of several completely disparate concepts stuck…
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In Bruges – Trying to avoid the tourists
The thing about Bruges is that it’s got a reputation for being one of those tourist-traps; somewhere that seems really…
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Stand on the Side of the House of Love
London Islington. I don’t know what image the phrase brings up, but in my head it’s a confused sort of…
Travel
I started this website believing I was a travel blogger, and, let’s face it, I’ve now been to over 100 countries so travel is still a fundamental part of my identity and why I write.
In this section are all my posts about my travels, and destinations I’ve been to across the world, as well as basic aspects of travel, like transportation, accommodation, food, and how to travel on a budget.
