Please note, we are now doing part 3 out of 5 on our trip to Albania in February. Comme d’hab, better late than never innit. <3 Albania is a land of fascinating history. What did I know in advance? Once upon a time there was a dodgy Communist dictator. That’s about it. So, after day […]
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Karelia: 74 years after
Relatives are a fun bunch to travel with. I was reminded of this in Lapland; and it was reconfirmed in Karelia earlier this month. My relatives and I had the chance to revisit family history by going on a kind of package trip with a busful of other Finns to go and visit old family history […]
I had a sandwich in Sandwich
The Earl of Sandwich enjoyed a good gamble. He enjoyed it so much that he prioritised it higher than regular meal breaks, and was often known to request people bring him a slab of meat in between two pieces of bread, so he could munch during his game. His fellow gamers approved of this idea, […]
My trip to the North Korean border (the DMZ-tour)
Extract from paper stuck into travel journal: DMZ thoughts. IN BUS 8.34am. Didn’t bring my journal in case the NKoreans confiscate it… Of course I knew that there would be no legit reason for the North Koreans to confiscate my travel journal, or even any legit reason for me to be meeting any North Koreans, […]
DEVONPORT I love you
Good day fellow human beings, ‘Today’ (the 18th) was a very good day, the day we went to Devonport. Devonport would be a 1½h walk away, or two buses. I decided to walk the way of the first bus (38mins, according to googlemaps), and take the second one. Buses are a hassle and I decided […]
Day 15: Rome in a day
One of the days I was most looking forward to! And an excellent day. First of all, as I mentioned in the previous entry: ROMA PASS is worth it. 34 euros, okay in the end I doubt we actually “saved” money by getting it, but it is SO WORTH IT because for the first two […]
Day 14: Tiramisu & Boboli amongst other things
Started off quite sleepy too. We checked out of our cool hotel/hostel, Siggorno Pitti in Florence (it had an official-looking reception, a very light, big and cool dining room/lounge with pretty sofas and lots of stuff to read) and after a typically disappointingly average breakfast we decided not to venture too far but just explore the […]
Day 11: First impressions of ITALY!
Today was the day we left France and headed towards our third big destination, Italy. We started off with another nice bigger brekkie in Nice, then walked over to the station. CC got a not-so-nice (even tho he was in Nice 🙁 ) last memory of France of nearly being pickpocketed, literally we were in front […]
Day 7: CARCASSONNE!!!
Reasons I wanted to go to Carcassonne: the board game Carcassonne. I first played it in my early teens which was nearly ten years ago! The main game I played with my friends for years on end. When, some years back, I realised there actually exists a town called Carcassonne, I decided I HAVE to […]