One of the best part about winter is getting home, escaping the freezing weather outside and getting nice and toasty in your apartment/house. Even better still – wearing your PJs way too early in the day and hunkering down in front of the fire place (if you have one) or the TV and doing nothing … Continue Reading
On arrival in Singapore, one of the first things I did was explore my neighbourhood – once I was done with my Uni work from Cambridge which had the ridiculously timed deadline of a few days after I arrived – between jet lag, assignment deadlines and general tiredness, I felt like I spent the first few … Continue Reading
Ngong Ping Village is one place you definitely have to visit when exploring the best things to do in Hong Kong. It’s such a different scene from the mainland’s bright lights, fast cars and concrete, glass & steel towers. To get to the village, you can either take a cable car (the Ngong Ping 360) … Continue Reading
Cornwall is a delightful gem (in the south-west of the UK) and one of the few places in the UK that boasts brilliant weather. The beaches are amazing, the people delightful and the clotted cream delicious. 12 Amazing Things To See In Cornwall, England
No matter where you travel to in the world, waterfalls are always an amazing sight to see! The sight of that rushing water, cascading with at amazing speed with ferocious intensity always make for great viewing and amazing travel photos. There’s something also intimidating about the sheer strength of the waterfalls which only add more … Continue Reading
I love a bit of winter snow! It somehow manages to make everything appear more magical (in doubt – check out the castle in this post here). These photos are some of my favourites from driving around the country side, visiting family and shopping to stock up on my favourite German treats! 🙂 The houses … Continue Reading
Just in case you somehow missed the TV adverts, street lights and holiday sales promotions – Christmas time’s just around the corner! And no one does Christmas markets quite like the Germans… One of my favourite things around the holiday season is to visit a German Christmas market. I was a late arrival on the whole … Continue Reading
Okay, perhaps not as much the wild side as “the wild”… or at least as wild as a nature trail can be! On this afternoon in Singapore, four of us decided to go explore the MacRitchie Nature Trail (another highly recommend FREE thing to do in Singapore) however as half the party was quite jetlagged, … Continue Reading
Excess baggage fares are a particularly frustrating experience for any traveller to face. It’s like someone decided that packing for your trip and trying to catch your flight on time somehow wasn’t stressful enough and so they needed to add more hassle with that dreaded “luggage weighing” which could then potentially pack an expensive excess … Continue Reading
Take a look, below, at the 5 cities in Europe to visit this year. 1.) London It’s every traveller’s delight to spend some time in London. Not just because of how pretty it is, or how steeped it is in history and decorated by brilliant architecture. One of the key reasons to visit London and … Continue Reading
I love going to see stuff that most people don’t do. When in Singapore, most people head off to see the obvious shiny stuff – the Marina Bay Sands, shopping on Orchard Road, Day trips to Universal Studios and while there absolutely nowt wrong with those things, one experience I definitely recommend when in Singapore … Continue Reading
Travelling is always a unique personal experience – you see the world through your own eyes (literally and figuratively). You taste, smell and feel everything wherever you travel in manner that has everything to do with you little with someone else. Despite this, there are constantly “travel rules” being banded around that people expect you … Continue Reading
Night time photos can be some of the best photos you can take yet conversely one of the hardest photos to take! They either turn out fantastic or in really awful quality and there’s usually very little in between. Even the slightest movement when taking the photos can make such a difference to the photo … Continue Reading
1.) Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany: I expect Elsa to burst out singing from this castle at any moment! 2.) Bamboo Forest, Japan: The pure essence of calmness and serenity. 3.) Pena National Palace, Portugal: Looks like the birth place of adventure and summer romance! 4.) Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland: Somewhere in here is a princess (or … Continue Reading
