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Novi Sad in a few hours
Novi Sad is Serbia’s second biggest city, around 80km from Belgrade and the train takes about 90 minutes. It stands…
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Belgrade – The White City
See, I’ve been to Belgrade now three times (I have a penpal there), and each time it’s been in a…
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Laibach and think of Slovenia
Ahh, Laibach. But I’m not here referring to the Industrial/Experimental music group/culture founded in the late 80s/early 90s who had…
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The Valleys
“The miner in the Rhondda, the coolie in Pekin / Men across the world who reap and plough and spin”…
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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…
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.
