What is my must have travel item? It’s the standard question I often stumble across when flitting around on the web for travel related articles offering advice… and everyone has their own answer, albeit usually very similar. Books (more recently kindles/ipads/tablets), a phone, camera, and all the other obvious answers come up time and time […]
Update: August 2014: For a more recent post on London check out: On a Budget: Free and discounted things to do in London. *** My trip into London for the day on Saturday had been planned for sometime, but I didn’t plan until the last minute what I was actually going to do there. Thank […]
London usually features in top cities of the world lists, but it has always been firmly on my list of places I don’t particularly like. I think this goes back to the days of having to suffer the commute into the city in the early hours for endless days/weeks/months of torment on mindless tasks at […]
I’m off to Budapest for a few days for a little break, after being very ill last weekend I will be taking it easy. To take advantage of the earlier flights I’m departing from Luton, so had the joy of joining the Friday commuters into the city and back out again… Surprisingly it was extremely […]
I am a very keen walker. In fact on my to do list remains a large number of the 214 Wainwright mountains to climb in the Lake District, but fortunately I have the rest of my lifetime to try and achieve them :). Last year I got properly introduced to the world of geocaching which is […]
There is something to be said for travelling on a low cost airline. Certainly an experience that I haven’t had the pleasure of in what must have been a couple of years. You may be shocked to hear that I, a supposedly seasoned traveller, was surprised at what this involved. Having to cram my liquids […]