Livingstone: The Town, The Man, The Tree

The heat hit me as soon as I stepped off the plane. Tentatively hopping across the…

Tiraspol: Support Your Local Sheriff

“I’m the urban spaceman baby, here comes the twist: I don’t exist”. I have been told…

Day Trip To Plovdiv

I spent two nights in Sofia, but while I was there I took a day trip…

24 Hours in Sofia

“Our flight time will be about 2½ hours, thanks to a strong tailwind. The current weather…

Novi Sad in a few hours

Novi Sad is Serbia’s second biggest city, around 80km from Belgrade and the train takes about…

Belgrade – The White City

See, I’ve been to Belgrade now three times (I have a penpal there), and each time…

Laibach and think of Slovenia

Ahh, Laibach. But I’m not here referring to the Industrial/Experimental music group/culture founded in the late…

Glasgow Smiles Better

See, I grew up in Liverpool in the 1980s. Hard times in a rough city; it…

Ripon: Cathedrals and Unicorns

Most tourists to the UK visit the same places; London, Oxford, Canterbury, the Lake District, and,…

Geordie Shore

If you were asked to list the nicest beaches in Europe, you’d probably stick with the…

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…

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…