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...

Living in Europe gives you access to a buffet of languages to learn. The hard part is...actually learning them.