HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY FINLAND!!! In honour of this historic day, today we shall go back a year to the last trip of 2016, when I spent a blissful three days in Rovaniemi, Lapland with my parents and aunt and uncles. Not necessarily your obvious first choice for travel company, but my family are suitably eccentric […]
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Gdansking it for the weekend
Neither Hayzybob nor I had been to a new country this year, and 2017 is coming to a close threateningly quickly. So last month we pinpointed our meeting point to Gdansk, which I’d heard good things and seen beautiful pictures of – a one-of-a-kind town with recognisable circular towers and buildings. It used to be […]
A brief burst of Bratislava
Which city is the only capital in the world that borders two countries? Chances are that you’ve already read the title, and therefore already have rather a reliable hunch for the answer, so give yourself a pat on the back and a large portion of parene buchty (steamed dumplings filled with jam) if you answered BRATISLAVA! […]
I went up the Burj Khalifa and lived happily ever after
The title sort of rhymes, doesn’t it, depending on your English accent and Arabic pronunciation, eh? I contemplated titles like ‘Burj Khalifa: Where dreams come true‘ or ‘Burj Khalifa: Proof that dreams come true‘ but they would be too cheesy, right? And I am fully aware it is only my personal opinion, and that many […]
Mallorca Day 4: The end of the effervescent holiday
19.08.2014 Unfortunately just a quickie this time round to wrap up our Mallorca-weekend… Some people decide to get a tattoo as a permanent memory. I personally think that very old school, so I opted for a scar. Well, didn’t really opt, but I started the morning falling down the stairs to the pool. Exciting. […]
Day of Dolphins
11. December Today was the day me, CC and Hayzybobzykins went for the “Swimming with Dolphins”-excursion at the island-complex Bay of Islands, leaving from Russell. Max. 35 people on the boat, three hours. There was a 98% chance of us seeing dolphins, said Billy and Tommy on the boat, but we definitely don’t get […]
Day 2: Emirates Stadium&Ipswich!
HALLO PUMPKINS, Today we spent about six hours in trains. It’s a lot of time and something to get used to during the next weeks, but it went surprisingly well. I spent more or less a third of the trips asleep, a third playing Marble Saga (STILL ON THE SAME DARN LEVEL) and a third […]