Estonia: Tallinn
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Taking advantage of the Easyjet sale which had taken me to Slovenia the previous week I set off for one of their furthest destinations - Tallinn the capital of Estonia. Estonians are Finnic people and share close cultural ties with ...
Slovenia: Bled
Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Just over an hour on a bus from Ljubljana is Bled a beautiful town by a huge lake in the Julian Alps. This is Slovenia's number one tourist destination and can apparently get pretty crowded in summer. In November though ...
Slovenia: Ljubljana
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Easyjet had an incredibly cheap sale during October so I logged on just out of curiosity and in the ended up buying some cheap return tickets to Slovenia. Slovenia is a country that has always interested me since my trip ...
Poland & Ukraine
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Whilst flying home from Croatia after my last trip in March I was flicking through the in flight magazine and I noticed that Wizz Air fly Kiev from London. Once checking online that the price of a single ticket was ...
Ukraine: Kiev
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »I caught another overnight train from Lviv across to Kiev which was the last leg of my trip. I was pretty tired getting on the train and thought I would get a good bit of sleep under my belt. I ...
Ukraine: Lviv
Friday, July 3rd, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »After leaving Krakow behind I got an overnight train across the border to Lviv. Although I had been briefed on what a nice place it was I was amazed at how it seemed empty compared to Krakow. In Poland I ...
Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Whilst visiting Krakow I went on a day trip to the nearby Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps the scene of the largest organised genocide in history. Over 1.1 million people were killed in these camps most of whom were Jewish. There were three ...
Poland: Krakow
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »The first leg of my Poland and Ukraine trip was Krakow. I was lucky enough to have some stunning weather which was in stark contrast to the weather in the UK which was generally mostly pissing rain. I tried to ...
Western Balkans Diary
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Tuesday 24th March I decided to go for a short jaunt in the Balkans to meet up with a friend who was working there. The plan was go to the mythical country of Montenegro. I say mythical because many people seem ...
North Korea Diary
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 Posted in Travel | No Comments »Saturday 14th April [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Where are the cars? Quiet streets greeted us in Pyongyang "][/caption] We flew into Pyongyang aboard a Air Koryo flight from Beijing. The customs officials dissected my bag with great enthusiasm but they only seemed ...
