Category: travel

• January 4, 2015

  The Trouble With Concert Tickets

  I don’t have a regular article for you because I have spent all day today trying to get concert tickets. I have a Bands Bucket List which is a list of bands I need to see before THEY kick the bucket.  It’s quite long, because I haven’t been to many concerts (three and a festival,…
• January 1, 2015

  NEVER take these 10 things on vacation

  

  Here are the 10 things you should NEVER take on vacation. The wisdom in packing isn’t knowing what to take, but what to leave out; so I thought I’d bring you a round-up of some things nobody should take on holiday, business trips, vacay or extended travel. 1. Plants: I had a Great Aunt (may…
• December 26, 2014

  How to build an igloo

  

  How do you build an igloo? With all the Boxing Day snow we’ve been having, I am going to show you how to build a functional igloo; we built this igloo in our drive in 2013, at a guess it was about 12 feet (3m) in diameter. We built this igloo that lasted several days…
• December 20, 2014

  Twenty Must-Climb Mountains in Europe

  

  Ever wondered which European mountains offer the best climbs?  As a key point on my “Things I Must Do Before I’m 30” list, I’ve spent the last few weeks compiling a list of twenty mountains in Europe that are worth climbing.  I’ve presented them here in order of height: 20. Ben Lomond, Scotland, UK. Ben…
• December 17, 2014

  [travel] Buying Petrol in Europe

  

  Buying Petrol In Europe and European-language countries When we were approaching the ferry at Dover, England, I pulled into the petrol station and filled the tank. My OH’s mum had told us confidently that petrol was much cheaper in France. This should have meant waiting until France to fill up, surely?  Why, then, was I getting…
• December 8, 2014

  The 30 List

  The 30 List: Things I need to do before I turn 30 (according to my 18 year old self) When I was 18, I wrote two lists for myself. One of them was the list of things I wanted to accomplish before I was 20. The second? The bigger list, of things I wanted to…
• December 5, 2014

  Mirabell Gardens and Palace: Breaking all the rules.

  Mirabell Gardens and Palace: Breaking all the rules. It’s bad form to start at the beginning when you write a travel piece. This is the special exception: The fountain, facing away from us as we entered Mirabell Gardens, was a half naked woman who appeared to have two streams of water pointing in opposite directions…