I’ve never thought of myself as a particularly spontaneous person. It’s one of the reasons I put off travelling for so many years: every...

The big days are the most difficult. That’s something you learn pretty quickly when you move abroad. All of the first ‘big days’ that I...

It would be fair to say that my long weekend trip to Vienna got off to a rocky start. In fact, that’s putting it gently. Being my first...

Apart from the straightforward 'good and bad', living in a new country comes with many intricacies and fascinations that are not...

In my previous post, “The good, the bad, and the downright fascinating: Budapest at a glance, Part I”, I disclosed just a few of the...

We all know that no city, region or country in the world is perfect – a fact that seems to become more and more glaringly obvious as the...

I’ve always wanted to travel, for as long as I can remember. Still, it wasn’t enough for me to really give it my all in overcoming some...