This is a post I've started writing a fair bit but up until now hadn't carried on with, for a few reasons. I'd like to make it very clear that none of these reasons are the man involved, and in the end I decided my blog, my rules, right? Writing is like therapy for me, as I know it is for a lot of us, so yeah-I'm writing my truth. Well, THE truth, but he would paint an entirely … [Read more...]
40 Before 40…An Update
A while ago, I wrote about my plan for 40 before 40; my goal to visit cities in forty different countries, before I hit 40 years old. I stalled a bit on this in 2019 (although I did visit Copenhagen, Stockholm and Porto, so added three to my list) but I'm still only at sixteen countries of my forty target. 2020 is going to be a better year for travel, though. As I write … [Read more...]
48 Hours In Porto
Portugal was another not really on my radar country (much like Sweden, until I visited Stockholm) but knowing I was booking a trip in May, after my cold February one, I wanted somewhere that would definitely be a bit warmer. I'd seen a few bloggers talk about Porto and that it was full of street art-so that was me sold. I was actually in the city for 72 hours but planned plenty … [Read more...]
Being Honest-What’s Going On
We've all seen those 'what have you achieved these last ten years' tweets going round and, if you'd asked me a few weeks ago, I would've said a lot. I've had jobs I loved, jobs I hated but learnt a lot from, made friends and lost friends, found a love of travel and bought a house. And the thing I was probably happiest about, fallen completely and utterly in love and found my … [Read more...]
2020 Goals, Planning And Looking Forward
2019 was, overall, a pretty terrible year for me, looking back. I thought it was fantastic but it turns out that wasn't the case (more on that in next week's post!) for now though, instead of looking back I'm looking forward, at my 2020 goals and plans. Be healthier: This will probably change as the year goes on but for now, I want to switch to decaff tea (I drink at … [Read more...]
48 Hours In Stockholm
Once I'd booked my bargain flights to Hamburg, and remembered that I'd already visited Berlin so Germany wasn't a new country, I started looking for somewhere new to add on. Copenhagen was added because I'd always wanted to go but Stockholm, if I'm honest, wasn't ever on my radar. The train times and prices worked well with the rest of my plan though, and the flight home too, … [Read more...]
Making A Comeback
I’ve been writing this post, in my head at least, for a month or more. I last properly blogged in May, had a busy couple of days, decided to have a week off, and then just stopped-and I never intended to. I’ve always referred to myself as a writer, a blogger, and I keep saying I am but truthfully, is a writer who doesn’t write still a writer? Considering that a couple of … [Read more...]
A Big Life Update
I've been wondering whether to write this post for a while, as technically everything could still go wrong. But if it does, I'll probably talk about it on here anyway and even it that happens, I'll still be doing this, just back to the searching stage. So...I'm buying a house! I've been lucky in that when I left my job in Darlington a few years ago, I moved back in with my … [Read more...]
Porto’s Street Art
Porto has a reputation for lots of Street Art and as soon as I'd booked my flights, I started to look at finding as much street art as I could. Unlike most cities I've been to, I couldn't find much in the way of self guided walking routes, which is disappointing. Berlin taught me that just wandering hoping to find Street Art isn't always that successful, so I headed to Air B n … [Read more...]
Why I Shoot With A Photographer Abroad
Since I started travelling solo, my photos from trips have been 99% photos of buildings, street art and beautiful views, and 1% selfies. Even with my gorilla tripod and the self timer on my Olympus Pen, it's so hard to get a decent photo of myself and I felt like my blog content was suffering for it. So, I started thinking about other ways to make sure I got a decent … [Read more...]
How I Saw Hamburg For Under £200
As a travel blogger, my main aim in life is to travel as much as I can. Around the time of this trip I was also in the process of buying a house and so my top priority had to be paying for that, which made life difficult when it came to my wanderlust. After doing the Cheapflights Challenge in 2016 when I went to Dublin, and that post getting such a good reception from my … [Read more...]
AD-PRESS TRIP Northern Quarter Manchester
*My spending money was gifted by Hotels.com, but all views, photographs and places to visit are my own ideas. Even though it's very close to me (about 40 minutes, an hour on a bad day) I very rarely visit Manchester. I do need to head over more so when Hotels.com asked me if I'd go over and explore and write a post in collaboration with them about what I got up to, of course I … [Read more...]
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