Category EUROPE
Easter Processions in Santiago de Compostela
Whilst I’m not particularly religious, I do tend to end up visiting many religious sites on my travels. Mosques, temples, churches, deities, religious sites (mainly referring to all of the places I read about when I was a kid at Sunday School – Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Jericho), stupas… and we all remember what happened when […]
5 Abandoned Theme Parks Around The World
When it comes to visiting abandoned places, I’ve realised I have a re-occurring type of place I like to explore. Theme parks! My interest was sparked simply from watching the action film Hanna. It was the final scene, an exhilarating chase through a decrepit theme park that did it for me. I think it was […]
Abandoned Places: Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship Monument, Varna
If you caught up with my last post about visiting Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria, this is the one I was meant to write but I got a bit distracted by trying to explain away why I swapped palm trees for concrete. RELATED: Abandoned Places: Buzludzha Monument So, back to present day! Well, almost…. I started […]
Abandoned Places: Buzludzha Monument
After almost a year travelling around tropical climates I decided I wanted (or possibly more like I needed) to swap the palm trees and paradise islands for a completely different look – the look and use of concrete! We’re talking about socialist monuments, ex-soviet relics, brilliant brutalist specimens – yep, I’m back in Eastern Europe. […]
London Walks: Parklands
A 5 mile walk in North London on a rainy Good Friday you say? Why not! With non stop rain, I had this wonderful walking route almost all to myself, bar a few crazy runners and some dogs that seemed to like muddy puddles a little too much. From the 1860s a train line ran […]
London: Hidden Tunnels
I grew up within the commuter belt of London so from an early age Dad use to bring me up to “town” to see the London sights in the school holidays. From 16 I started coming up to London with my friends, at 23 I moved to London and 17 years later I’m still here. […]
2017 Year in Review
2017 has been a busy year full of travel and self discovery but sadly very little blogging. That’s one New Year resolution made… The start of 2017 was marred by sickness and being diagnosed with a fatty liver disease. Completely reversible but a lifestyle change needed to happen immediately. I have been sober for 8 […]
Weekend in Liverpool
I’ve visited 62 countries around the world yet I hadn’t managed to visit Liverpool, a mere 2 hours train ride from my London home. Until last weekend! Finally! What.A.City. I have always said that I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the UK other than London – now then Liverpool, I could live in […]
Weekend in the Alps: The Matterhorn
Since watching The Night Manager on the BBC last year, I became obsessed with wanting to see the Matterhorn mountain which is in the first episode. It looked magical and completely unreal to me. I’ve never skied, never will, which is why Switzerland hasn’t really ever been on my radar. Plus I heard it’s expensive. […]
London Walks: Old Street to Tower Hill
I was going to title this London Walks: East London and realised that would be a bit mis-leading. East London is such a huge area and with there being no signs of gentrification slowing down saying that we’re heading to “East London” no longer just means we’re heading to Brick Lane. On the contrary, no-one […]
Watson's Wanderlust 