Inside Laura's Head

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram you'll know that I'm in a pretty new relationship. You'll also probably know that our first date was abroad, in Budapest, after we met online. Meeting someone new is always a risk and even more so when you're abroad, so I wanted to talk about the things I (well, we) did to make sure we were both safe, and that I wasn't in fact a … [Read more...]

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, was never on my radar. Of course I knew Lithuania was a country but I couldn't have told you the capital or anything about the country at all, I couldn't even point it out on a map. But I want to see the world, I want to have visited every country at least once, eventually, so when I was planning my multi city, multi country trip and knew I … [Read more...]

Whenever I said I was going to Riga to someone I knew they either reacted with 'where!?' or 'why?'. Where, the capital of Latvia and why, because I want to see the world and I'm starting with working my way around Europe as its cheap and easy to fit in with my limited annual leave. I'd heard good things about the city and when I realised I could do flights and accommodation for … [Read more...]

Planning a trip, for me, can vary between loads of fun and really stressful, depending on where I’m going. I always follow the same steps when planning a trip on a budget, though, and thought that whilst I’m spending time planning my next one I’ll share my methods on Inside Laura’s Head. When you're planning a trip on a budget, look for cheap flights first I'm asked a … [Read more...]

I'm from Leeds, but other than going for a reason (Go Ape in Grizedale) I've never been to the Lake District. I'd booked a couple of days holiday with my best friend so off we went. We were there for two days but could definitely have fit more in than we did. I've merged everything into one post as that made the most sense. Here's what we got up to spending a day in the Lake … [Read more...]

The Airports Arriving in Brussels wasn't the easiest, if I'm honest. The city has two airports but all of the flights from airports near me arrived into Charleroi. The main airport, Brussels, has a train into the city taking approximately 17 minutes. Charleroi is much further out and there's no public transport. Your options are to book the shuttle bus with Flibco, … [Read more...]

When you mention Belgium, for most of us there are a few cities that spring to mind. There's the capital, Brussels, where the EU is based. Bruges, with it's many canals and pretty little squares. Antwerp and it's fashion scene, and Ghent. I'd booked flights to and from Brussels and intended to spend my full weekend there, but then people started to tell me Ghent was a far … [Read more...]

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I really miss the good old days of blogging, where people would post about their specialist subject (or lots of subjects if they were more of a lifestyle blogger) and would then post chatty, catch up with my life sort of posts in between. I loved those more personal insights into someone's life and what they'd been up to, how they were … [Read more...]