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Livingstone: The Town, The Man, The Tree
The heat hit me as soon as I stepped off the plane. Tentatively hopping across the airport tarmac like someone…
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Tiraspol: Support Your Local Sheriff
“I’m the urban spaceman baby, here comes the twist: I don’t exist”. I have been told by a couple of…
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Day Trip To Plovdiv
I spent two nights in Sofia, but while I was there I took a day trip to the nearby city…
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24 Hours in Sofia
“Our flight time will be about 2½ hours, thanks to a strong tailwind. The current weather in Sofia is sunny,…
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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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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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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…
Towns & Cities
Travel is as much about exploring the towns and cities you visit en-route as it is about the journeys and the countryside experiences. In these posts I talk about the towns and cities I’ve visited, some close to home, others on the other side of the world, in my quest to prove “everywhere is interesting”.
