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For someone who grew up on the borders of Hampshire it is a little strange that this should be my first ever trip to the Isle of Wight. Armed with wellies, a rather trendy tepee tent I had brought from Amazon (after hearing it was the tent shape of choice for all the cool kids), [...]

I pulled myself away from London and spent the weekend with my friend Lucy in the Peak District. After a heavily wine-fuelled catch up on the Friday night we headed up to Edale, nestled in the hills and set up camp in grumpy Mr Coopers farm. We went walking up on Kinder Scout, laughed at [...]

Three girls, one tent and a weekend camping in Cornwall. Well, sort of, Becca, Heather and I actually spent the first night staying at our friend Laura’s family house in Rock. However Heather and I did manage to change a tyre on Laura’s car the next morning which we were quite proud of. Then the [...]

Day one 07.30 Huddled with coffee along the side of Trafalgar square in the pouring rain becoming rapidly aware that my waterproof wasn’t. But we braved the rain to take photos for the start of our trip and then (after Cameron’s rather late arrival!) set off through the streets of London and out to the [...]

After a work conference in Croatia I decided to extend my flights for a few days and do a little exploring of my own. I spent the first solo day saying in the old city of Dubrovnik, Stari Grad, with it’s impressive city walls and beautiful maze of stairways and streets. Following a sign advertising [...]

Kristy and my comedy weekend of spires, goulash, art deco hotels, autumn leaves, underground tunnels, photography exhibitions and blues bands in a very chilly Hungarian November in Budapest.

Istanbul to Tuz Golu We began our journey in Istanbul in a lovely hotel whose room allocation antics would have made Faulty Towers proud, but there’s nothing to break the ice like meeting in the wrong room half naked in the middle of the night! Istanbul is a fantastic city though, a real mix of [...]

What do you when Ryan air are offering ridiculously cheap flights on the web, you book four tickets for you and friends to spend the weekend in Barcelona for less than the train fare to Stanstead airport. So it was an unusally warm weekend in November that Sophie, Becca, Nicky and I found ourselves strolling [...]

My friend Shireen was studying at John Hopkins University for the first year of her MA so I got a cheap flight down for the weekend. One of my favourite things about Eupropean countries that aren’t England, is that you can arrive on a late flight, meet a friend at midnight and find a quiet [...]

Suffering from itchy feet and desire to improve my french, I returned from South America and soon left for a french course on the south coast of France. I spent a month doing a language course at the small but fantastic Cuneforme institute, going to the cinema, the beach, cuban bars, barbeque parties and staying [...]