If you’re coming to São Miguel – the largest island in the Azorean archipelago – you will undoubtedly end up spending some time in its capital city, Ponta Delgada. It’s where Sao Miguel’s airport is located and the majority of its budget accommodation. For this reason we decided to base ourselves in Ponta Delgada for […]
If you’ve read my last couple of blog posts, or you’ve been following along on Instagram, you’ll know that I recently took on a challenge to spend a weekend in Copenhagen for under £200. Bearing in mind that Scandinavia is renowned for being THE most expensive part of Europe in which to travel, it was […]
Bucharest is a strange city. It’s one of the few I’ve visited where the Old Town was not my favourite part. Don’t get me wrong, there were parts that I liked a lot – the grand architecture, the humble Stavropoleos Church, and the incredible food I ate at Aubergine Restaurant – but the real beauty, in my […]
Plans for my birthday trip away this year once again started with a Skyscanner search ‘UK’ to ‘Everywhere’. I had less than a week to play with (because I’d already managed to wangle four weeks off work later on in the year for a long-awaited trip to Thailand and Myanmar) and – as always – […]
Before I arrived in Cuba I did plenty of research regarding the practicalities of visiting the country, I educated myself about its socio-economic status and the issues faced by its residents, and I shopped online for enough cycling gear to see me through two weeks in the saddle. But because I was booked on an […]
